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Gingerich, Chester M. (1922-1979)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1 Mar 1979 p. 8
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Community News
Chester M. Gingerich, 56, of Middlebury, died Feb. 15 at Goshen General Hospital following a lingering illness. He had been hospitalized five days. Services were held at the Clinton Brick Mennonite Church. Officiating were John Yoder and Stan Miller.—Ruth E. Bender.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 14 Jun 1979 p. 11
Birth date: 1922 Feb 17
Chester M. Gingerich was born Feb. 17, 1922 near Kalona, Ia. to Jeptha G. and Ida Yoder Gingerich. He spent his boyhood and young adult years at the family farm in southern Johnson County.
He was married on Apr. 6, 1946 to Barbara Kauffman of Middlebury, Ind. They lived in Iowa until moving first to southern Michigan and eventually to the Middlebury, Ind. area.
Chester lived most of his adult life in Middlebury where he operated a grain transit business for a number of years and more recently was an independent steel hauler for the Yellow Freight Transit Company.
He became ill early in 1978 and died on Feb. 9, 1979. He was a member of the Clinton Brick Mennonite Church where the funeral service was held. Burial was in the church cemetery.
He is survived by his widow: four sons, Ron, Larry and C. James and wife Christina of Middlebury and Ken and wife Leona of Elkhart, Ind.; four sisters, Mary and Mabel Gingerich of Kalona, Ia., Elsie Gingerich of Nashwauk, Minn., and Arvilla Gingerich of Calico Rock, Ark; and his step-mother, Mrs. Lovina Gingerich of Kalona.