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Name: Lightfoot Bender
Birth Name: Joseph Poklembo
Hometown: Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1918-07-23
Pro Boxer: Record

Lightfoot Bender died in battle in France in World War I. He had enlisted in the U. S. Army in November, 1917, and was an infantryman. In addition to being a boxer, he was a trombonist who played in the Liberty Band in his hometown and later played in the Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros. circus band.