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Lenora "Sis" (Wender) Myerberg as a young woman wearing a bead necklace.

Lenora "Sis" (Wender) Myerberg was born in Woodstock, Virginia.

In 1932, she and her brother, Simon, assumed ownership of "Wenders Department Store" in Woodstock and Mt.…

Portrait of Simon Zavel Wender wearing glasses and a suit.

Simon was the son of the founder of Wender’s Department Store in Woodstock, William M. Wender (1881-1932) and his wife, Minnie (Howard) Wender (1882-1961), both originally from Baltimore,…

Portrait of Rosella Orndorff as a young woman. Her parents were Walter Resty and Effie Catherine Orndorff. She married Simon Z. Wender (1907-1976) and left behind a son, William M. and a daughter, Deborah, when she died.

Group of Woodstock High School students from the 1920s. Front row from left: Hunter Gaunt, Emma Lou Stoner, Simon Wender, Edna Tampkin, Bill Logan, Joe Clower. Back row from left: Bender Fansler, Madolin Walton, "Sis" Wender, Margaret Kibler, Philip…

Portrait of Lenora "Sis" (Wender) Myerberg as a young woman.

Lenora "Sis" (Wender) Myerberg was born in Woodstock, Virginia. In 1932, she and her brother, Simon, assumed ownership of "Wenders Department Store" in Woodstock and Mt. Jackson,…

Wender's Clothing Store located at 103 S. Main Street in Woodstock. It was housed in the G.W. Koontz building. Simon Z. Wender, the owner of Wender's, is visible on the left. The man on the right is unidentified.

Portrait of Simon Zavel Wender as a young man wearing a suit.

Simon was the son of the founder of Wender’s Department Store in Woodstock, William M. Wender (1881-1932) and his wife, Minnie (Howard) Wender (1882-1961), both originally from…

Portrait of Mary Offman, who worked at Wender's Department Store in Woodstock.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the front of Wender's Department Store's Mt. Jackson location. A second store was located in Woodstock Virginia. Both were operated by Simon Wender.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the front of Wedner's Department Store' on Main Street in Mt. Jackson. That store was open from ca. 1920 until the late 1960s.

Wender's Department store had a second, larger location in Woodstock…

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the front of Wedner's Department Store's Mt. Jackson location. A second store was located in Woodstock Virginia. Both were operated by Simon Wender.