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Hershberger, Samuel Lee (1910-2006)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Feb 27 p. 12
Birth date: 1910 Feb 7
text of obituary:
SAMUEL HERSHBERGER
Samuel Lee Hershberger, 95, of Glendale, Ariz., died Jan. 26, 2006. He was born Feb. 7, 1910, to Ephraim D. and Dora Kempf Hershberger near Kalona, Iowa.
He married Marie Yoder on June 20, 1935.
He graduated from Sharon High School in 1928 and attended Goshen (Ind.) College for one year. He enjoyed singing and was a member of the Goshen College men’s and mixed chorus groups.
He taught seven years in Johnson County, Iowa, rural schools and was employed for 30 years by the Iowa City Post Office as a clerk and carrier. He then spent six years doing promotional work for Goshen Biblical Seminary. In 1977, he and his wife, Marie, moved to Glendale, where they spent their retirement years.
Survivors include a son, Donald of Santa Cruz, Calif.; a sister, Edna Hostetler of Kalona; four grandsons and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Marie; a son, David; his twin brother Daniel; brothers Guy, Jay and Ralph Hershberger; and sisters Cora Brenneman, Mary Brenneman and Barbara Hershberger.
