Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photograph of Wender's Department Store located on the corner of Court and Main Streets in Woodstock.

Wender's Department Store was a well-known fixture in the area until it closed in the early 1970's.

Formerly, the building was used to house…

Members of the Woodstock High School's baseball team are posed with their coach on the steps of the school.

Identified are (l to r):

Front row: Robert Hite, Simon Wender, Clarence Golladay, Unidentified

Second row, far left is Hunter…

Portrait photograph of William M. Wender wearing round glasses and a suit and striped tie.

This is a photograph of an older image.

Born in Russia, he is best remembered as having been the founder and long-time proprietor of Wender's Department…

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 photograph 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…

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 class of 1925.

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…

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…

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.
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