Davidhizar, Otis G. (1909-1999)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 17 Jun 1999 p. 7

Birth date: 1909 Jun 19

text of obituary:

OTIS G. DAVIDHIZAR

Otis G. Davidhizar died May 4, 1999, two weeks shy of his 90th birthday.

He was born June 19, 1909, in St. Joseph County, Ind., to Enos and Martha (Beutler) Davidhizar. He accepted Christ as his personal Savior and was baptized and taken into the membership of Holdeman Mennonite Church, an Indiana-Michigan Conference (MC) congregation in rural Wakarusa, Dec. 11, 1920. He married Mary Enders on May 18, 1929.

He was a loyal and active member of his church, serving as trustee, longtime Mennonite Aid director, and on the building committee for the facility that has its 25th anniversary in June 1999. Otis' grandfather was a key man in building the congregation's first non-log-cabin meetinghouse in 1875.

He lived all of his life on the farm where he was born, except for winters in Florida the last 20 years. He was active in the community, serving on the Penn/Harris/Madison School Board, the Dairy Council of Northern Indiana, and as a longtime participant in the Farmer's market of South Bend.

Surviving are his wife, Mary; two daughters, Eleanor Shoup of South Bend and Nacy and her husband Don Parcell of Wakarusa; a son, James of Houston; seven grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren, and two brothers, George and Henry, both of Wakarusa. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Imogene Fay Davidhizar; two sisters, Sara Catherine Hiss and Bertha Davidhizar; and a brother, Manford Davidhizar.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 12 Aug 1999 p. 11