Jeanette G. Yoder

KALONA ? Jeanette Grace Yoder, 90, of Kalona, died Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, in the Pleasantview Home in Kalona.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 10, at the East Union Mennonite Church in rural Kalona with the Rev. Firman Gingerich and the Rev. Joel Beachy officiating. Burial will be in the East Union Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 7 p.m., Wednesday at the Yoder-Powell Funeral Home in Kalona. A memorial fund has been established for East Union Mennonite Church and Pleasantview Home.

Mrs. Yoder was born March 8, 1925, in Shiocton, Wisconsin, the daughter of George and Alice (Johnson) Miller. She married Duane R. Yoder on June 22, 1945, at the First Congregational Church in Shiocton.

She graduated from Shiocton High School and Milwaukee State Teachers College. She had lived in the Kalona community since 1946, where she was a homemaker. She was a member of the East Union Mennonite Church and the Reach and Recovery Program. She and her husband were involved in the International Christian Youth Exchange, and Kerstin Matsson of Sweden lived with them for a year. They enjoyed their time with the University of Iowa International Host Family program, bringing Amer Lahamer into their family. They were also foster parents for three young girls during the time they participated in the Foster Care Program. She enjoyed spending time with her family, entertaining, reading and sewing. She was very proud of her Norwegian heritage.

Surviving are one daughter, Karen Harvey and husband Bruce of Kalona; two sons, Tom Yoder and wife Dori of Kalona, and Chuck Yoder and wife Jan of Iowa City; four grandchildren; two step-grandsons; 14 great-grandchildren; and honorary family members.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Duane, in 2007; one grandson; one brother, Donald Miller; and one sister, Idabel Hanson.