Funeral will be held at OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS located at 2700 N Virginia Street in Reno, Nevada at 1 pm on 1/19/19.  

There will be a celebration of life held at the Fernley Golf Club immediately after the funeral. It is located at 50 Desert Lakes Drive in Fernley, Nevada.

Family extends invitation to all whom wants to share memories of Dave. 

David Bench was born in Roseville, California to Ivan LeRoy Bench and Geneva Ann Bench on February 25, 1967.  

He went mostly to Roseville Schools in Elementary schools, a couple of years in Arizona, then Foothill High School in Sacramento, California.  He started to Sierra College in Rocklin, California majoring in Business Management.  He was shot while with friends and him trying to save other people at the Discovery Park in Sacramento leaving him a partial parapelegic for the remainder of his life, shortly after enrolling in college.

David was preceded in death by grandparents Ivan Bench and Leona Bench of Roseville, California.  Tean Wren and Margie Wren of Rocklin, California.

David is survived by  father Ivan LeRoy Bench of Shingletown, California, his mother Geneva Ann (Bench) Humphrey of Citrus Heights, California.  His son Nick Bench of Shady Cove, Oregon.  Two brothers, Joel Bench and Dennis Bench of Montana and his fiance Sarah McNelly.

Dave Bench worked for Costco in the hearing aid division in Medford, Oregon and later went to work for G N Resound hearing aid company.  He was the Western States Regional Manager for the company in Oregon and was hugely successful in his career.

He had many interests some unlikely with certain physical limitations, but, he never slowed down and accomplished so much in life. He built cars, weight lifting,  excellent pool shooter, quad runners, anything that went fast, basketball team for disabled people, boating, water skiing, coaching kids sports teams, construction building, music and played bass,  accepting anything that was a challenge.  Most of all he touched people's lives when they had given up on themselves. He had a way of talking and directing people in believing in whom they could become.