Submitted by: Dan Rich

Wesley C. Bender

Aug. 8, 1908 - Dec. 14, 1995

South Bend Tribune 12/16/1995

SOUTH BEND - Wesley C. Bender, 87, of Juniper Road, died at 12:55 p.m. Thursday in St. Joseph's Medical Center after an illness. Mr. Bender retired in 1973 as professor emeritus from the University of Notre Dame after 42 years of service, where he was the founder of the marketing department in the College of Business. He was born Aug. 8, 1908, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and had lived in South Bend since 1931.

On Dec. 30, 1933, in Templeton, Pa., he married Genevieve Rebolt. She survives with two daughters, Marilyn Meyer of New York City and Alane Singleton of Grand Haven. He was a former member of American Institute of Banking; Association of Credit Men; former manager of Northern Indiana Adjustment Bureau, serving as secretary of St. Joseph Valley Chapter; former member of American Economic Association; American Marketing Association, and director of the Michiana Chapter, American Association of University Professors; Michigan World Trade Club; past president and vice president of Indiana Academy of Social Sciences; former director of South Bend Civic Music Association; former editor of Credto, a monthly publication of St. Joseph Valley Chapter of the National Association of Credit Men, and founder and former editor of the Notre Dame World Trade Conference Papers. He was a graduate of Cornell University, the University of Pittsburgh, Northwestern University, and Columbia University.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Sacred Heart Basilica. Friends may call one hour before services on Monday in the church. Hickey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorial contributions may be made to Wesley C. Bender Scholarship Fund, in care of the Dean's Office, College of Business Administration, Notre Dame, IN 46556.