Yoder, Illa Mae Erb (1928-2007)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Nov 12 p. 12

Birth date: 1928

text of obituary:

ILLA MAE ERB YODER

Illa Mae Erb Yoder 79, of Kalona, Iowa, died Sept. 27, 2007. She was born to Louis and Mabel Roth Erb in rural Seward County, Neb.

On Dec. 7, 1947, she married D. Paul Yoder.

The couple started their home in Iowa, and she joined Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church, where she was active in the WMSC. They served the community in many ways, including volunteering at the Crowded Closet, cooking apple butter for the MCC sale and the Fall Festival. They served for nine years with the Rio Grande Habitat for Humanity in Texas. She enjoyed quilting and baking rolls.

Survivors include her husband, D. Paul Yoder of Frytown; six children, Jerry Yoder and his wife, Marcia, of Loveland, Colo., Mary Holsopple and her husband, Elroy, of Goshen, Ind., Merle Yoder and his wife, Linda, of Driggs, Idaho, Ellsward “Pete” Yoder and his wife, Barb, of Goshen, Rhonda Polizzotto and her husband, Greg, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Kevin Yoder and his wife, Bekkey Wiebe Yoder, of Lakewood, Colo.; two brothers, Milton Erb of Casa Grande, Ariz., and Ron Erb of Milford, Neb.; 13 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two daughters, Diane Yoder and Charlene Miller.