Ebersole, Fern K. Yoder (1921-2006)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 May 1 p. 11

Birth date: 1921 Apr 26

text of obituary:

FERN K. EBERSOLE

Fern K. Ebersole, 84, of Sun City, Ariz., died in her sleep April 15, 2006. She was born April 26, 1921, to Ora E. and Orpha Yoder in Middlebury, Ind.

She graduated from Shipshewana High School in 1939 and attended Goshen College for two years.

She married Lester Ebersole on Aug. 8, 1943, at the college chapel in Goshen.

She and Lester sang duets and in other special music, including a mixed quartet with Frank and Beaty Brunk and other groups on many occasions.

Besides being a homemaker, she was employed as a bookkeeper in Indiana and Colorado over the years until they retired in Arizona.

She had been in failing health in recent years, especially after a hip fracture in 1996 and a stroke in 1999. She never completely recovered from that and was mostly confined to a wheelchair.

Survivors include her husband, Lester; two sons, Gregory and Kenneth; a daughter, Karen Thomason; and a sister, Mabel Shriner.

She was preceded in death by four sisters, Ethel Yoder, Ruth Miller, Margaret Ramer and Florence Frey.

Funeral services were held at the Chapel of the Chimes Mortuary in Glendale, Ariz.