Schrock, Elmer Leo (1920-2009)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2009 Sep 7 p. 13

Birth date: 1920 Aug 30

text of obituary:

ELMER LEO SCHROCK

Elmer Leo Schrock, 88, of Maquoketa, Iowa, and formerly longtime resident of Wayland, died May 6, 2009, at Crestridge Nursing Home. He was born Aug. 30, 1920, to Daniel W. and Anna (Roth) Schrock in Shelbyville, Ill.

His parents moved the family in 1940 to a farm near Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church of Kalona, and they became members of this congregation. He worked as a farm hand for local Mennonites, and because of World War II he enlisted as a peace builder in Civilian Public Service. He helped with construction of Deerfield Dam at Camp #57, Hill City, S.D. Then he worked at a dairy farm at Beaverdam, Wis., for a year, and transferred to Unit #66, the State Mental Hospital, Norristown, Pa., where he worked until being released from CPS in 1946.

He returned to the Kalona area and worked on farms, then went to Ontario, Calif., for one year. Then he served in Mennonite Voluntary Service at the Children’s Home in Kansas City, Mo., for one year.

He married Josephine K. Richard on March 12, 1953, at Sugar Creek Mennonite Church of rural Wayland. He was a member of Sugar Creek Mennonite Church. He farmed in the Wayland community for almost 50 years.

Survivors include six sisters, Mabel McKittrick of Terre Haute, Ind., Bessie Swartzendruber of Iowa City, Bertha Miller of Mode-Shelbyville, Ill., Lillie Thomas and her husband, C.C., of Fayetteville, N.C., Esther Seville and her husband, Arthur Tidey, and Lydia Ann Kennel and her husband, Dwight, all of Monmouth, Ore.; three brothers, Ervin R. Schrock and Jacob W. Schrock, both of Kalona, and Howard V. Schrock and his wife, Willeane, of Medina, Ohio; and an aunt, Ellen Roth Clark of Wayland.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Josephine, on Nov. 1, 2001; and by five brothers, Raymond, Edwin, John, Daniel and Fred.

Services were held at Sugar Creek Mennonite Church of rural Wayland. Burial was in the church cemetery.