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Lizzie Wagner Bentz

29 Aug 1878 – 12 Nov 1974

Birth	29 Aug 1878
Death	12 Nov 1974
Cemetery	New Lutheran Cemetery Norfolk , Madison County , Nebraska , USA
Added by	Tamara Bentz on 22 Feb 2010
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48522554

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Obituary, 13 November 1974 Norfolk Daily News: "Mrs. Bentz Dies at 96; Rites Set Funeral services for Mrs. Lizzie Bentz, 96, 715 S. Fifth St., Norfolk, will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at Grace Lutheran. The Rev. Martin Russert will officiate, and burial will be in New Lutheran Cemetery. Visitations will be Thursday from 3 to 9 p.m. at the Home for Funerals. Mrs. Bentz, who made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Florence McGinty, died about 2:45 a.m. Tuesday in a Norfolk hospital where she had been a patient since Nov. 3. She was born Aug. 29, 1878 at Fremont to the late Mr. and Mrs. Claus Wagner and was married Oct. 10, 1900, also at Fremont, to the late Herman Bentz. The couple resided at Scribner and Spencer until moving to Norfolk in 1917. Mrs. Bentz was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one brother, one sister, two sons, two daughters and one grandson. Surviving are three sons and four daughters, Robert Bentz, Mrs. Florence McGinty and Mrs. Gerald (Elizabeth) DeVore, all of Norfolk; John Bentz of Grand Blanc, Mich.; Earl Bentz of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Mrs. Viola Newman of Lincoln; and Mrs. Richard (Alice) Daniell of Stanton; 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren."

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Family

Parents

• Claus Wagner 1838–1908
• Johanna Magdalena Schoolmann Wagner 1839–1928

Spouse

• Herman Ernst Bentz 1875–1936

Siblings

• August John "Gus" Wagner 1869–1956
• Helene Wagner 1871–1872
• Emma Wagner Bauer 1874–1945
• Heinrich Wagner 1875–1878

Children

• Archie Bentz 1901–1901
• Viola Helene Bentz Prevo Newman 1902–1981
• Florence Emma Johanna Bentz McGinty 1904–1985
• Elmer Hermann Tonjes Bentz 1906–1910
• Marie Mathilda Bentz 1909–1957
• Elizabeth Mae Bentz DeVore 1911–2006
• Alice Jean Bentz Daniell 1914–1999
• John Donald Bentz 1917–2014
• Robert Herman Bentz 1919–2010
• Norma Joyce Bentz 1920–1925
• Earl Ray Bentz 1923–1986

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