Yoder, Vernon E. (1931-2003)

Newton Kansan obituary: 2003 Sep 22 p. 2; 2003 Sep 26 p. 1

Birth date: 1931

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2003 Sep 29 p. 8

text of obituary:

Vernon E. Yoder, 72, of Hesston, Kan., died Sept. 21, 2003, at Newton Medical Center. He was born July 2, 1931, to Eli T. and Ida M. (Plank) Yoder in Newton.

He married Dolores Langshaw on Dec. 22, 1953, in Nevada, Mo.

He was a graduate of Bethel College in North Newton. He graduated from the Kansas City School of Nursing in 1954. He also graduated from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.

He served an internship at Dallas Veterans Hospital and his psychiatric residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center from 1962 to 1967. He served as medical director and as a psychiatrist at Prairie View Health Center in Newton.

He was a member of Whitestone Mennonite Church. He was a member of the Harvey County Medical Society and Kansas Medical Society, and a Fellow in the American Psychiatric Society.

Survivors include his wife, Dolores; two sons, James of Newton and Kent of Hesston; three daughters, Cynthia Askren of New Cambria, Susan Yoder of Wichita and Sharon Wiens of Orlando, Fla.; two brothers, J. Arnold Yoder of Yoder, Colo., and Lawrence Yoder of Newton; a sister, Mary Kathryn Stucky of Moundridge; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Services were held at Hesston Mennonite Church. Burial was in East Lawn Cemetery.