Shetler, Lucille Hostetler (1920-2005)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2005 Dec 19 p. 11

Birth date: 1920 Sep 13

text of obituary:

LUCILLE SHETLER

Lucille Hostetler Shetler, 85, of Mountain Home, Idaho, died Nov. 22, 2005, after a long battle with cancer. She was born Sept. 13, 1920, at Milford, Neb.

She married Leland Shetler on Feb. 8, 1944. In 1945 they moved from Nebraska to Filer, Idaho. In 1955 they moved to the Bruneau area, where they turned 250 acres of sagebrush and jack rabbits into a farm. She lived on that farm the rest of her life.

Her Christian faith was very important to her. She was active in Filer Mennonite Church and later in Indian Cove Mennonite Church and Bruneau Sunday School. When Leland was ordained to the ministry, she served at his side as he was pastor of Indian Cove Mennonite Church, Bruneau Community Church and Mountain Home Christian Center. At the time of her death she was an active member of Bruneau Community Church.

She loved to cook. For many years she was manager and cook at Hungry Onion Drive Inn in Mountain Home. In the 1970s, she and her husband spent two summers serving at Christian Retreat Campground in Strawberry Lake, Minn., where she was the cook. They spent two winters helping missionary friends in Mexico.

Survivors include her husband, Leland; three sons, Ivan and his wife, Janis, of Bruneau, Edward and his wife, Kathy, of Middleton, and Scott (Vernon) and his wife, Shari, of Melba; a daughter, Neva Hamilton and her husband, Sam, of Indian Cove; three brothers, Dale Hostetler of Milford, Neb., LeVoy Hostetler of Denver, Colo., and Larry Hostetler of Nampa; four sisters, Mary Schweitzer of Vanderhoof, B.C., Nadene Troyer of Nampa, Leora Gingrich of Phoenix, Ariz., and Ellen Mishler of McMinnville, Ore.; seven grandchildren; two step-grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by sons Norman and Waldo and an infant son, Duane.

A funeral service was held at the Bruneau Legion Hall, with burial at the Bruneau Cemetery.