| Name |
Minnie Bendorf [1, 2, 3, 4] |
- Helen Roberta Coburn was born October 23, 1931, to parents Frank and Minnie Coburn. Helen grew up on farms outside of Hillsdale, where she cared for her pet pony Pender.
In 1949, she graduated from Paola High School. Not long after she would meet a good-looking guy, Richard Mott, at a Pla-Mart dance. It was love at first sight. Helen would later recall that the night Dick came to pick her up for their first date it was raining heavily. Fearing his now muddy shoes would track across their wood floors, Minnie put down a sheet of newspaper in front of the doorway and asked Dick to wait there for Helen. Later that night once their date had ended and she returned home, Helen quietly retrieved the newspaper, now stamped with two perfect shoeprints, and placed it in her hope chest. Despite a lot of ribbing from Dick throughout the years, she continued to hold on to the memento.
Early in their marriage, the couple lived in Overland Park while Dick went to art school. During that time, she worked as a secretary to Glen Dickinson of Dickinson Movie Theaters.
In 1957 Dick and Helen moved back to Hillsdale into the house where they would spend the rest of their lives. While Dick started a new business, Mott Signs, Helen took care of their three children Cameron, Richelle, and Lee, worked in her parents’ store, Coburn Grocery, and taught Sunday School.
Once their children had left school, Helen joined Mott Signs as a secretary, bookkeeper, and screen printer. In 1990 Dick and Helen sold the business to their son Cameron and pursued a longtime dream to become snowbirds.
For three decades, the two made the trip south to spend a few months every year in Florida or Texas. During that time, they made lifelong friends and had adventures that became legend in the family (like that time they smuggled large bottles of vanilla and prescription drugs across the Mexico border).
Helen passed away peacefully in her sleep on April 8, 2019. She was preceded in death by her parents Frank and Minnie, sister Elizabeth Beets, daughter Richelle, and husband Dick. She is survived by her sons Cameron and Lee; grandchildren Noah, Michael, Hannah, Taylar, Martha and Madison; and great grandchildren Julius, Gabriel, Jackson, Fiona, Agatha, Weston, and Naomi.
Memorials can be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or to the Hillsdale Presbyterian Youth Group.
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Albert J. Bendorf and family
November 1909
Left to right back row:
Dave Morgan, Jake, Ab, Francis, Fred, Anna, Kate, and Cora Bendorf
Middle Row: Allie Bendorf, Henrietta Bendorf holding son Paul H. Morgan, Caddie Morgan, and ? (This row’s identity may not be correct)
Sitting on Bench: Bertha Bowes, Minnie Coburn, Cora Bendorf, Nellie Walters
Sitting on the ground:
Pearl,… |
Relationship | with Albert Leopold Vitter
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| Birth |
18 May 1896 |
Rural, Louisburg, Miami, Kansas, USA  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] |
| Gender |
Female |
| FindAGrave.com Memorial ID |
109500384 [4] |
| SSN issued |
Kansas, USA [7] |
| Reference Number |
13464 |
| Residence |
1900 |
Columbia Center, Garfield, Washington, USA |
| Residence |
1 Mar 1905 |
Marysville, Miami, Kansas, USA [6] |
| Residence |
1910 |
Marysville, Miami, Kansas, USA |
| Residence |
1915 |
Marysville, Miami, Kansas, USA [3] |
| Residence |
1920 |
Marysville, Miami, Kansas, USA |
| Social Security Number |
514-24-0352 [7] |
| Death |
1 Apr 1989 |
Delmar Gardens, Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA [4, 7] |
| Burial |
Hillsdale Cemetery South, Hillsdale, Miami, Kansas, USA [4] |
| Siblings |
1 brother |
| | 1. Minnie Bendorf (current person), b. 18 May 1896, Rural, Louisburg, Miami, Kansas, USA d. 1 Apr 1989, Delmar Gardens, Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA (Age 92 years)
▻Benjamin Franklin Coburn, b. 19 Sep 1894, Stuttgart, Arkansas, Arkansas, USA d. 18 Dec 1959, Hillsdale, Miami, Kansas, USA (Age 65 years), m. 15 Feb 1916, Hillsdale Methodist Church, Hillsdale, Miami, Kansas, USA
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| Notes |
- Obituary: Mrs. Minnie Coburn: Mrs. Minnie Coburn, 92, well known retired Hillsdale grocery store owner, died Saturday, April 1, 1989, at Delmar Gardens in Olathe. She was a lifelong resident of Miami County. The daughter of Frederick and Allie Margaret Walters Bendorf, she was born May 18, 1896, near Louisburg, Kans., in a house which was part log cabin. She attended public school in Wea and Maryville Townships in Miami County. She was married to Benjamin Franklin Coburn Jr., Feb. 15, 1916, at the parsonage of the Methodist Church in Hillsdale. Mrs. Coburn was a farm wife until the mid-1940s when she and her husband become the owners of Coburn General Merchandise in Hillsdale. After her husband's death in 1959, Mrs. Coburn continued to operate the store by herself until 1078. In retirement, she was a Foster Grandparent at Lakemary Center in Paola until 1985. Mrs Coburn was the oldest member of the Hillsdale Presbyterian Church in Hillsdale. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Julia Elizabeth Beets of Olathe, and Mrs. Helen Roberta Mott of Hillsdale; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Others preceding her in death were her parents, an infant brother, Charley William Bendorf, and a granddaughter Richelle Mott Doman. A visitation will be from 6 to 8 o'clock tonight, Monday, at the Wilson & Son Chapel in Paola. The services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Chapel. The Rev. Ralph L. Ruhlen, pastor of the Hillsdale Presbyterian Church, will be the officiant. Mrs. Virginia Reese will provide organ selections. The songs will include "How Great Thou Art" and "Rock of Ages." The burial in the Hillsdale Cemetery. Serving as the pallbearers will be Richard Schoenburger, Robert Weil, Garvin Petree, Eli Peak, Floyd Weaver and Fred Knoche. Memorials may be made to the Hillsdale Presbyterian Church or to the Foster Grandparents Program at Lakemary Center.
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| Person ID |
I12922 |
Vitter-Weaver Genealogy | Sharon Vitter's Relative |
| Last Modified |
23 Oct 2023 |
Vitter-Weaver Genealogy
1896 - 1989 (92 years)
1894 - 1959 (65 years)
