Hostetler, Ida Miller (1901-1972)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1972 Jan 13 p. 7

Birth date: 1901

text of obituary:

Former Missionary To India and Ghana Dies at Elkhart

Goshen, Ind. — Mrs. S. Jay (Ida) Hostetler, 71, who with her husband served as a missionary to India and Ghana under the Mennonite Board of Missions, died Jan. 5 at Elkhart General Hospital where she had been a patient since Dec. 17.

Funeral services were held Saturday forenoon at the College Mennonite Church here, with Rev. John H. Mosemann and Rev. J. D. Graber in charge.

Rev. and Mrs. Hostetler served in India from 1928 to 1949, and in Ghana from 1957 to 1964. They also served in pastorates at Cullom, Ill., 1925-28, at the Belmont Mennonite Church in Elkhart, 1950-57, Fairhaven Mennonite in Fort Wayne, 1964-69, and in Detroit, 1969-71.

The former Ida Miller of the Shipshewana community, Mrs. Hostetler taught in Indiana public schools before her marriage in 1924.

Surviving in addition to her husband of the home in Goshen are a son, John Jay of West Lafayette, Ind.; two daughters, Mrs. James (Mary Ann) Melchert of Oakland, Calif. and Mrs. Lowell (Lois Ruth) Young of Constantine, Mich.; seven grandchildren; two brothers, and two sisters.