Longenecker, Ella M. Byler (1892-1987)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 26 Mar 1987 p. 11

Birth date: 1892

text of obituary:

ELLA M. LONGENECKER

Ella M. Longenecker, 94, of Dillsburg, Pa., died Jan. 29, 1987, following an illness of several months.

Born Sept. 1, 1892, near Belleville, she was the daughter of Abiah and Lydia Zook Byler. She was a member of Kralltown Mennonite Church in York County.

On May 4, 1944, she was married to Daniel L. Longenecker. He died on May 4, 1968.

For 18 years she worked at the children's home in Grantsville, Md.

Last spring a tumor was discovered under her right ear; treatments followed at Hershey Medical Center last summer. She became bedfast about two months before her death.

She is survived by two stepdaughters, Ruth (Mrs. Raymond) Miller of Elizabethtown and Emma (Mrs. Laban) Zimmerman of Dillburg; 46 step-grandchildren; 165 step-great-grandchildren; and 64 step-great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three stepsons, one stepdaughter, five brothers and three sisters.

Funeral services were held at Stricklers Mennonite Church, Middletown, with bishop Elmer Kruder, John Rohrer and Russel Zeager officiating. Burial was in Shopes Cemetery, Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County.

Transcribed by Ralph Shetler, Oregon