Later Life
Pendal was also a published author and historian, who wrote a number of works concerning the history of Western Australia and in particular the history of the Parliament of Western Australia, along with a biography of former WA premier Albert Hawke. At the time of his death, he had finished another work awaiting publication, a history of Catholic education in Western Australia due to be published in September 2008.
Pendal died of a heart attack in 2008, and was widely praised by his former colleagues from both sides of parliament as a passionate and eloquent parliamentarian of great personal integrity.
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