Lenore Benderly, travel agent - Washington Post

Lenore Benderly, 80, who spent about 15 years working as a travel agent for Enterprise World Travel in Washington, died Sept. 18 at her home in Longboat Key, Fla. She had lymphoma.

The death was confirmed by her daughter Jill Benderly.

Mrs. Benderly taught at H.D. Cooke Elementary School in the District in the early 1950s and was a guidance counselor at Poolesville Junior High School in the 1960s. She joined the travel agency in the early 1970s and retired about 1990.

Lenore Walter was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a 1951 graduate of Brooklyn College. She received a master's degree in education from the University of Maryland in 1963.

She was a member of the Potomac Swim and Tennis Club and was a frequent patron of the Washington National Opera. She moved to Florida from Potomac in 1999.

Her husband, Asaf A. Benderly, whom she married in 1951, died in 2003. Survivors include two daughters, Jill Benderly of Washington and Eve Berman of Park City, Utah; a brother; and two grandchildren.

— Adam Bernstein