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Leslie Dwaine "Les" Bendickson

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Birth Date: November 2, 1927
Death Date: July 14, 2016
Age at Death: 88
Sex: male
Veteran Of: U.S.Air Force

Marriages

Mae

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado
Mortuary Name: Callahan-Edfast Mortuary

Obituaries

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D Death Notice - July 17, 2016

Leslie Dwaine Bendickson, 88, Grand Junction,
died July 14, 2016, at La Villa Grande Care Center.
Services will take place at a later date.
He was an airline station manager.
He is survived by his wife, Mae; one son, Mark of Hillsboro,
Oregon; one daughter, Lori Bendickson of Grand
Junction; and two sisters, Carol Olsen of Ivanhoe, Minnesota,
and Barbara Oerter of Hendricks, Minnesota.
Memorial contributions to HopeWest, 3090B N. 12th
St., Grand Junction 81506.

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D Obituary - July 24, 2016

Leslie Bendickson
November 2, 1927 - July 14, 2016
Leslie Dwaine Bendickson,
88, of Grand Junction,
Colorado, died Thursday, July
14, 2016, at LaVilla Grande
Care Center.
He is survived by his loving
wife of 62 years, Mae;
daughter, Lori Bendickson of
Grand Junction; son, Mark
(Beth) Bendickson of
Hillsboro, Oregon; sisters,
Carol (Don) Olsen of Ivanhoe, Minnesota, and Barbara (Norris)
Oerter of Hendricks, Minnesota; and many nieces and nephews.
Les was born on November 2, 1927, in Wood Lake,
Minnesota, the second of five children to Harold and Lillian
(Jeseritz) Bendickson. After graduating from high school, he
enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1946. Following his military
service, he acquired his pilot’s license and returned to farming.
He then attended airline school in Kansas City, and began a long
career as a station manager for Frontier Airlines and later
United Express. He married Mae Horn in 1954, and they lived
in Wyoming for ten years before moving to Scottsbluff,
Nebraska, where they raised their family. After 20 years, they
moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, where he retired in 1989.
Because of the benefit of working for an airline, they were able
to travel extensively, fulfilling their life’s motto of “Live with
Wings".
The family would like to thank The Residence at Grand Mesa,
LaVilla Grande Care Center, and HopeWest for the love and
care shown to Les.
Services will be held on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at 11:00 a.m.
at the First Presbyterian Church. Military honors will be at 3:00
p.m. at Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado.
Memorial contributions to HopeWest, 3090B N. 12th Street,
Grand Junction, CO 81506.

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