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Obituaries

Monday, October 1, 2018
Bessie Yoder
Monday, October 1, 2018
Bessie Yoder
KALONA ? Bessie Yoder, 102, of Kalona, died on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008.
Celebration of life service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, at the Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church, in rural Kalona, with the Rev. Don Patterson officiating. Burial will be prior to the memorial service, at the Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 8 pm. today, and from 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, at Yoder-Powell Funeral Home in Kalona. Memorials may be made to Pleasantview Home, Iowa City Hospice, Iowa Mennonite School, and Hesston College ? Anna Smith King Scholarship.
Mrs. Yoder was born July 27, 1906, on a farm two miles southeast of Hesston, Kan., the daughter of Samuel B. and Anna (Smith) King. She married Herman Yoder on Aug. 4, 1931, at her parents' home.
For the full obituary, see the Aug. 4 edition of The Washington Evening Journal