Zook, Nettie A. Yoder (1867-1955)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1955 Oct 27 p. 5

Birth date: 1867 Mar 27

text of obituary:

Aged Grandmother Called by Death

La Tour, Mo. — Mrs. Nettie A. Zook, the last surviving member of the C. M. Yoder family, died here Oct. 8 at the age of 88. Funeral services were held Oct. 10 at the Sycamore Grove Mennonite Church of which she had been a member from her youth.

Born at Middlebury, Ind. On March 27, 1867, she came to Missouri with her parents at the age of three and had lived in Cass County for many years. In later years she suffered two hip fractures, and had been confined to a wheel chair or bed for the past three years.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1955 Nov 3 p. 8

text of obituary:

MRS. NETTIE A. ZOOK

Nettie A. Zook of La Tour, Mo. was born march 27, 1867, at Middlebury, Ind. She was the eldest of six children of C. M. and Rebecca *Kauffman) Yoder. After the death of her brother, Emery, three years ago she was the “last leaf” clinging to her immediate family tree. At the age of three she moved with her parents to Vernon Co, Mo., later to Bates Co, and then to Cass Co. where she lived until her death.

In her youth she accepted Christ as her Saviour and became a member of the Sycamore Grove Mennonite Church near Garden City, Mo. She was united in marriage on March 18,1888, to Levi D. Zook, who preceded her in death in 1929. Since her marriage over 67 years ago she had lived on the same farm in the Gunn City community. This marriage was blessed with a foster daughter, Elsie (Mrs. Alvin J. Hooley), Hubbard, Oregon; two sons, Jonathan C., Canby, Oregon, and Ira T., La Tour; and three daughters, Lydia, of the home, Carrie (Mrs. L. A. Schrock), Harrisonville, Mo., and Phebe (Mrs. Harold Hershberger), of La Tour. Also she leaves 17 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Six grandchildren have preceded her in death.

For many years she had been very frail and in failing health. In the past eight years she suffered a broken hip twice and also a broken wrist. For the past three years she had been in a wheel chair and for nearly three months had been a bedfast patient in her home. On Sunday, Oct. 2, she could not be aroused from a coma, a physical condition from which she rallied only occasionally previous to her passing into eternal rest Saturday evening, Oct. 8, at the age of 88 years, six months and 11 days.

She was always a kind and loving wife and mother. In all her years of illness and suffering she never complained, but manifested a patient and humble spirit. Even during her last illness she was much concerned about inconveniencing those who cared for her.

She enjoyed going to church and attended as long as she could. After it was no longer possible for her to enter the building she found much joy in sitting in the car and listening to the services over a small loud speaker. She listened to and appreciated many religious programs on the radio.

She spent much time in singing, even in her illness, and many of the songs were centered around her heavenly home. She especially was grateful to the young folks of the church who so regularly on Sunday afternoon ministered to her in song. She was happy to have her children and grandchildren come home and often requested them to sing when they were together.

The family always manifested kind and loving care to their mother, but her oldest daughter, Lydia, deserves special mention because of the devoted assistance and tender care she has given her mother since 1929. Practically nothing was left undone that human hands could do in providing for her mother’s physical, spiritual and social needs.

Funeral services were held Oct. 10 at 2 p. m. in the Sycamore Grove Mennonite Church by Rev. James D. Yoder. He was assisted by Bro. S. S. Hershberger at the home services. Iona and Erma Schrock, Bernice and Louise Yoder, Alfred Yoder, Jr., Rolla Hartzler, Wilbur and Albert Schrock sang, “There is a Home Eternal,” “Come Ye Disconsolate” and “The Soul’s Sweet Home.” Casketbearers were her grandsons, Dwight and Dale Hershberger, James and Richard Schrock, and two sons of a niece, Elbert and Delbert King, Kansas City, Kansas. Burial was in the Clearfork cemetery.