{"id":109097,"date":"2026-02-03T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=109097"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:01:11","slug":"bender-everdina-age-86-listowel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2026\/02\/bender-everdina-age-86-listowel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bender, Everdina (Age 86, Listowel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"122\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2026\/02\/79a3ec46-bendereverdina.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109098\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Everdina Bender of Listowel passed away on Monday, February 2, 2026, in her 87th year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wife of Ken Bender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mother of Richard &amp; Colleen Bender of Listowel, Daryl Bender of Hamilton, and the late Charlene Hayden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mother-in-law of Glen Hayden of Listowel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandmother of Scott Hayden &amp; Ginette Armstrong, Brian &amp; Natalie Hayden, and Justin &amp; Victoria Hayden, all of Listowel, Robert &amp; Abra Hayden of Cochrane, AB, Wayne Hayden &amp; Lorissa Stortz of Walsingham, Christine &amp; Ryan Schuler of Kamloops, B.C., John Verhulp &amp; Cristel of Petawawa, Matt &amp; Kara Verhulp of Listowel, and Heather Verhulp of North Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great-grandmother of Claire, Isabelle, Carter, Katy, Graham, Eric, Heidi, Anya, Callie, Delilah, Harry, Charlie, and Romi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sister of Eric Exel of Lucknow, Gerda &amp; Randy Roppel of Tiverton, Charles Exel of Tiverton, and Frances Exel &amp; Gary Bergstra of Shallow Lake, and sister-in-law of Margaret Exel of Walkerton, and Walter Bender of Mississauga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitation will be held at the Eaton Funeral Home, Listowel on Thursday from 2:00 to 4:00 and 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funeral service will be held at Listowel Pentecostal Church on Friday, February 6, 2026 at 11:30 a.m. Reception to follow. The service will be live-streamed, and the link available on the funeral home website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring interment in Zion United Church Cemetery, Wallace Township.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatonfuneralhome.ca\/obituary-listing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.eatonfuneralhome.ca\/obituary-listing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click HERE to read full obituary. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everdina Bender of Listowel passed away on Monday, February 2, 2026, in her 87th year. Wife of Ken Bender. Mother of Richard &amp; Colleen Bender of Listowel, Daryl Bender of Hamilton, and the late Charlene Hayden. Mother-in-law of Glen Hayden of Listowel. Grandmother of Scott Hayden &amp; Ginette Armstrong, Brian &amp; Natalie Hayden, and Justin","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5210,5,7],"class_list":["post-109097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-bender","tag-eaton-funeral-home","tag-listowel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 03:38:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2026\/02\/bender-everdina-age-86-listowel\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109118,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109097\/revisions\/109118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}