Boshart, Amos M. (1874-1951)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1951 Feb 15 p. 6

Birth date: 1874 may 22

text of obituary:

AMOS M. BOSHART

Amos M. Boshart, 76, janitor of the Parkside grade school at Goshen, Ind. since 1931, suffered a fatal heart attack in the school building about 7:45 a.m. on Feb. 6.

Mr. Boshart had placed school traffic signals in front of the building and had just returned to the building when he collapsed. The city ambulance was called but Mr. Boshart was dead upon arrival at Goshen hospital.

Born in Clinton township May 22, 1874, Mr. Boshart was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Menno E. Boshart. His parents moved to Iowa in a covered wagon when he was two years of age but he returned to Goshen in 1911 and married the former Abbie Scott. They lived in Iowa for six years but came to Goshen in 1917 to make their home.

Mr. Boshart was a member of the Eighth Street Mennonite church. He was stockman at the Auto-Market store here before becoming janitor at Parkside in August of 1931.

Surviving him are his wife, with whom he resided at 311 South Seventh street: five children, Walter Lorain Boshart, of Goshen: Mrs. John (Constance) Wainwright of Indianapolis: Maurice E. Boshart, of Piqua, O.; Edwin M. Boshart, of South Bend; and Robert S. Boshart, of Mishawaka: nine grandchildren: and a sister, Mrs. Frank Magdefrau, and brother William M. Boshart, both Wayland, Ia.

Classes at the Parkside school were dismissed on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 7, when funeral services were held at the Eighth Street church, Rev. Robert Hartzler officiating. Burial was made in the Forest Grove cemetery southeast of Middlebury.