Yutzy, Earl Curtis (1922-2006)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Sep 26 p. 8

Birth date: 1922 Sep 9

text of obituary:

EARL CURTIS YUTZY

Earl Curtis Yutzy, 83, of Plain City, Ohio, died Aug. 9, 2006, at The Gables nursing home in Marysville. He was born Sept. 9, 1922, to Eli E. and Ida (Kauffman) Yutzy.

He attended Oak Grove School of rural Plain City. He served in Civilian Public Service during World War II in Powellsville and Beltsville, Md., in agricultural research facilities. He loved the land and worked as a farmer for 40 years.

On March 9, 1947, he married Alice M. Frey of Archbold.

As a young man he accepted Christ as his Savior and was part of the first baptismal class at Sharon Mennonite Church in 1935. During the 1970s and ’80’s he was part of the Maranatha congregation. In later years he returned to Sharon Mennonite Church. He served as children’s Sunday school superintendent, an adult Sunday school teacher, treasurer and church council member. He was a member of Gideons International.

He had an unusual ability with numbers, noticing and remembering for years such things as the cost of gasoline, the date of an event or the number of singers in a visiting choir. Though having only an eighth-grade education, he supported children and grandchildren in seeking higher education.

He and Alice traveled extensively, visiting siblings, children and grandchildren in many parts of the United States and in distant countries, including Japan, Ecuador and Trinidad. In retirement he enjoyed spending some winter months in Sarasota, Fla.

Survivors include his wife, Alice; seven children, LaVern and his wife, Janie, of Lititz, Pa., Earlene Horst and her husband, Loren, of Harrisonburg, Va., Lynette Showalter and her husband, Conrad, of Goshen, Ind., Mary Alice Ressler and her husband, Gerald, of Lititz, Pa., Anita Schauer and her husband, Bob, of Plain City, Dawn Showalter and her husband, Jon, of Rosedale, and Luann Yutzy and her husband, Robert, of Harrisonburg, Va.; a sister, Mary Herr of Newton, Kan.; 24 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Eli Jr. and Vernon L. Yutzy.