Gerber, Clayton Woodrow (1931-1956)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1956 May 3 p. 1

Birth date: 1931 Dec 28

text of obituary:

GRADUATE OF HESSTON COLLEGE KILLED IN NEBRASKA ACCIDENT

Harper, Kan. — Funeral services were held at the Pleasant Valley Mennonite Church here Sunday afternoon for Clayton Gerber, 24, who was instantly killed in a highway accident near Chappell, Neb. on April 26.

The young man, who had accepted employment at Chappell following his release from I-W service in Arkansas, died when the Jeep he was driving overturned into the back of a truck as he attempted to avoid an oncoming car. A graduate of Hesston College and Bible School, he had planned to later continue his training for the ministry.

Survivors include his wife and 18-month-olddaughter, and his mother, Mrs. Ida Gerber of Hesston.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1956 May 17 p. 8

text of obituary:

CLAYTON W. GERBER

Clayton Woodrow Gerber, son of Joe and Ida (Yoder) Gerber, was born Dec. 28,1931, and departed this life at Chappell, Neb. April 26, 1956, due to a fatal highway accident, age 24 years, four months, two days.

He accepted Christ as his Saviour, and united with the Pleasant Valley Mennonite Church by water baptism on Nov. 16, 1943, later transferring his membership to the Mountain View Congregation at Mt. Home, Ark.

On Sept. 1,1953,he married Anna Jean Amstutz of Kidron, O. to this union one child, Sharon Louise, was born.

Following their marriage they spent two years at Mt. Home, Ark. where Clayton served his I-W time teaching at the Christian Day School and helping with the work of the Mountain View Mennonite Church. At the time of his passing they were making their home at Chappell, Neb. earning the means with which to complete his education in preparation for seminary work and the ministry, this being his chief desire.

Besides his loving wife and child, he is survived by his mother, Ida Gerber of Hesston, Kans.; three brothers, Earl of Chappell, Neb., Emery and Marion of Harper; two sisters, Lela, Mrs. Warren Cornett of Pasco, Wash., and Leona, Mrs. George Hostetler, of Richmond, Va. He was preceded in death by his father, a sister Eula, and a brother, Clarence.

Those who knew him learned to love and deeply appreciate his determination to live the Christina life, his willingness to serve others and his loyalty to his Lord. Clayton will be remembered as a loving, kind husband and father.

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, April 27,at the Chappell Mennonite Church in charge of Fred Gingerich, with music by a I-W quartet from Denver, and April 29 at the Pleasant Valley Mennonite Church near Harper where Clarence Horst of Mt. Home, Ark, conducted the devotional and the sermon was preached by Waldo E. Miller. A quartet from the Hesston Mennonite Church sang. W. R. Nafziger was in charge of the commital [sic] service in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery.