Private family graveside services for Neva Benda, 97, previously from Rock Island will be conducted on Saturday, August 6th. Burial will be in Andover Cemetery, Andover, IL. Esterdahl Mortuary & Crematory, Ltd., 6601-38th Avenue, Moline is in charge of arrangements.
Neva died Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 at Bel-Wood Nursing Home, Peoria where she had been an active resident for 4 years.
Neva worked as a Private Duty LPN for 35 years. She was a member of First Lutheran Church, Rock Island, Emily Clareen Circle of Lutheran Hospital and she was President of the Andover Children's Home Reunion where she lived as a child for 10 years.
Neva J. Fostrom was born on May 23, 1908 to William and Alma Fostrom in Cadillac, Michigan. She married Wallace M. Johnson in 1931 who died in 1940 and then in 1954 married William R. Benda who died in 1976. Also preceding her in death were step-daughter Corrine Felske, Moline, Margaret Vogt, Colorado; a sister, Alice Sullivan, Rock Island; and a brother, Carl Fostrom, East Moline.
Survivors include a step-son, Howard Johnson, Alpha, IL; a nephew, a niece, 10 grandchildren and multiple great and great-great grandchildren.