Hostetler, Lloyd J. (1915-2004)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Jul 5 p. 9

Birth date: 1915 Dec 20

text of obituary:

LLOYD J. HODYRYLRT

Lloyd J. Hostetler, 88, of Glendive, Mont., and formerly of Bloomfield, died March 22, 2004, at Glendive Medical Center. He was born Dec. 20, 1915, to Alvin and Mary (Schloneger) Hostetler on a farm in Ohio.

In 1942, he was drafted when the United States entered World War II. He went to Virginia and served in a Civilian Public Service camp, working in soil conservation and fighting forest fires. In 1943, he volunteered to go to Terry to work in a CPS camp building the Buffalo Rapids Irrigation Project until the war was over. There he met Kathryn Nissley, and they were married on May 24, 1945.

They farmed near Bloomfield until 1991, moving to Glendive in 1993.

He was instrumental in introducing and financing the Calvary Hour program to local radio. He also served in Mennonite Disaster Service work and in the local church at Red Top Mennonite near Bloomfield and White Chapel Mennonite Church in Glendive.

Survivors included his wife, Kathryn; three daughters, Berdine Eby and her husband, Richard, of Overland Park, Kan., Jeanette Yoder and her husband, Ray, of Goshen, Ind., and Eileen Hostetler of St. Ignatius; a son, Larry and his wife, Cindi, of Bloomfield; three sisters, Ida Hostetler of Louisville, Ohio, Vesta Helmuth of Wingate, N.C., and Grace Hostetler of Louisville, Ohio; three brothers, Vernon and Garrison, both of Louisville, Ohio, and Robert of Condon; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Chauncey and Roy.

Funeral services were held at the Evangelical church in Glendive. Burial was in Red Top Mennonite Church Cemetery, rural Bloomfield.