Yoder, Elizabeth (1860-1948)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1948 Jan 22 p. 3

Birth date: 1860 Jan 5

text of obituary:

MRS. ELIZABETH YODER

Mrs. Elizabeth Yoder, 87, wife of the late Eli Yoder, died unexpectedly at 2:00 a.m. Dec. 31 at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Bishop and Mrs. Ray Yoder, southeast of Wakarusa, Ind. Mrs. Yoder had been in usual health at supper time and apparently suffered a stroke during the night.

She was born Jan. 5, 1860, on a farm west of Wakarusa, the daughter of Daniel and Anna (Nussbaum) Freed, and would have been 88 years of age the next Monday. Mr. Yoder, whom she married in Wakarusa on Jan. 6, 1883, died Feb. 4, 1942.

The Yoders moved to Nappanee in 1914 and lived there until 1940, when Mr. Yoder's health failed and they moved to the son's home, where he died two years later. The widow has made her home there since, with the exception of a year and a half when she stayed with another son, Lloyd, in Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Other survivors beside the two sons are a daughter, Mrs. Orpha Chambers of near Wakarusa; 16 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; [sic] and two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Freed and Mrs. Alice Longenecker, both of Wakarusa.

She had been a member of the North Main Street Mennonite church in Nappanee since 1909, and funeral services were conducted there at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2, by Homer North, pastor.