Marietta Taylor “Bobbie” Benade passed away Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Hickory, 10 days short of her 98th birthday. She was a resident of Whispering Pines for 34 years, moving there in 1985 with her husband, retired Lt. Gen. Leo Benade.

Bobbie was a former member of the Moore County ECA, Sandhills Photography Club, the Artists League of the Sandhills, and the Rainmakers golf group at Knollwood Fairways. She volunteered at Whispering Pines Thrift Shop for more than 30 years. She was a loving wife and mother who enjoyed playing piano and cooking for family and friends. She loved animals, especially her dear cairn terrier Prissie and her West Highland white terrier Abbie. She was a kind and generous lady who lived by the word of God.

Bobbie was born Nov. 30, 1921, in Fort Wayne, Ind. and moved with her family to Greencastle and then Evansville, where she attended Evansville College and after the start of World War II had a defense industry job. She met her future husband Leo Benade while he an Army recruit training at nearby Fort Breckinridge, Ky., and they were married in March 1943. After he returned from service in Europe in World War II, she moved with him as he was posted to bases at locations including Hawaii and Germany, and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia. After his retirement from the military in 1974, Leo became vice president and general counsel for the United Way of America, and retired in 1985 when they moved to Whispering Pines. Gen. Benade passed away in 1994.

She is survived by her sons, Larry, of Gainesville, Va., and Leonard and his wife, Lynne, of Hickory; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Bobbie contributed to a variety of worthy causes. Her family encourages you to make memorial donations to the charity of your choice.

She will be interred with her husband in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Marietta Benade

November 30, 1921 – November 20, 2019

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