The Phend plot at South Park Cemetery, Whitley County, Indiana.
Henry and Susie Phend, my great grandparents, with their infant son Richard Lincoln.
Virgil Gilbert Phend, son of Henry and Susie.
Rolland Victor Phend, my grandfather, son of Henry and Susie.My grandfather was 22 years old when his brother Richard was born. He once told me that he was holding little Richard at the time of his death.
Virgil was married to Heneretta Nelson on November 5, 1930. They were divorced six months later. Heneretta then married Virgil's brother, Don Phend, on September 5, 1931. Virgil graduated with the 1922 class of Columbia City High School. Like so many boys and young men, he worked for a while on the Aker onion and potato farm that was then located west of Columbia City. Later he attended an electrical engineering school at the University of Chicago. For a number of years he was associated with his father and brother, Gerald (Dufty) Phend in the building contracting business. Many of the downtown store fronts were renovated while he was an associate of the firm. In 1963 he began working as an architect with Roy McNett Designs, Inc. with whom he was employed at the time of his death.
All photographs taken May 4, 2007 by Becky Wiseman
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