Yost, Leah (1872-1956)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1956 Jun 14 p. 6

Birth date: 1872 Apr 18

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— Mrs. Leah Yost, 84, of Moundridge died at the Mercy Hospital there last Saturday. funeral services were held Tuesday forenoon at the Meridian Mennonite Church near Hesston, Rev. Harry Wenger and Rev. Paul Wenger officiating. Mrs. Yost and her husband, William Yost, operated a market in Newton from 1930 until his death in 1945. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Katherine Wildt of Elk City, Idaho; one son, Victor Roland of Hutchinson; and a sister, Mrs. J. M. Boeckner of Moundridge.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1956 Jul 26 p. 8

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MRS. LEAH YOST

Leah Yost was born near Reed City, Michigan, April 18, 1872, and passed away June 9, 1956, in Mercy Hospital at Moundridge, Kansas, attaining the ripe age of 84 years, one month and 21 days.

With her parents she moved to Archbold, Ohio, where her mother soon died, leaving her at 10 years of age the eldest child.

In 1884 the family moved to Scranton, Nebraska, where she grew to womanhood. On Sept. 29, 1889, she was married to William F. Yost of that place. To this union were born five children, of whom three died in infancy. Surviving are: Katherine Yost Weldt and her husband, Lewis, of Elk City, Idaho, and V. Rolland Yost and his wife Elizabeth, of Hutchinson, Kan.; also Elmer Long, Hesston, Kan. and Fern Long Fisher, Peabody, Kan., children of her deceased step-brother whom they raised as members of their family; three grandchildren, Joe Weldt, and John and Max Yost; two great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Sarah Boeckner, of near Moundridge, Kan., and a host of relatives and friends.

Her hus band preceded her in death on April 25, 1945, and in addition to the three infant children preceding her were two sisters, Rebecca and Verena; one half brother, Jesse Yost; two step-brothers, John and Samuel Long, and three step-sisters, Mattie, Emma and Mary Ann.

During the latter part of 1920 they moved to Kansas, residing first at Hesston and then at Newton. A couple of years after the passing of her husband she joined her widowed sister Sarah Boeckner and lived with her until the time of her death.

In 1921 she answered the call of the Saviour, fully yielding herself to Him and upon a definite assurance of a living faith she was received by baptism into the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, on February 27 of that year and remained a faithful Sister to her end. She left the testimony, attested to by her life, of a full assurance of salvation and of her acceptance to the home in glory.

She possessed an unusually cheerful, friendly and appreciative disposition. Her life was devoted to the self-forgetting service of others, often toiling early and later to make others' lives more pleasant. A serious illness in middle age caused her one leg to become affected to the extent she became lame.

Four orphand [sic] children, upon the death of her step-brother, became her concern, two of whom she mothered as her own.

Funeral services were held June 12, 1956 at the Meridian Mennonite church, Hesston, Kansas.

Minister Milferd Wenger had opening remarks and prayer. Minister Harry Wenger spoke words of comfort and chose for scripture reading from Mark 14:8; II Cor. 5:1-3; 9-10.

Burial was made in the nearby cemetery.