Yoder, Nettie Stutzman (1912-2002)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2003 Jan 6 p. 8

Birth date: 1912

text of obituary:

NETTIE YODER

Nettie Stutzman Yoder, 90, of Kalona, Iowa, died Dec. 17, 2002, at Pleasantview Home. She was born to Alvin and Barbara Saltzman Stutzman in Milford, Neb.

She graduated from high school in Milford and attended Teachers Normal Training in Lincoln, Neb., and Goshen (Ind.) College. She taught in one-room country schools for four years.

On Jan. 1, 1938, she married Donald D. Yoder in Milford. They lived and farmed in the Kalona area all of their lives. She enjoyed gardening, quilting and helping with woodworking that he finished.

She was a member of Kalona Mennonite Church and belonged to the WMSC.

Survivors include five children, Joy Hess and her husband, Owen, of Goshen; Robert and his wife, Jan, of Bettendorf, Iowa; Fred and his wife, Sheryl, of Winfield, Ill.; Mary Glick and her husband, Ervie, of Harrisonburg, Va.; and Martha Graber and her husband, Myron, of Washington, Iowa; exchange student son Aliko Songolo and his wife, Emilie, of Madison, Wis.; 14 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald, on Dec. 7, 2000; and a sister, Fannie Stutzman.

Funeral services were held at Kalona Mennonite Church. Burial was in the South Gingerich cemetery north of Kalona.