Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Stichter, Bertha Yoder     April 21, 2008
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  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 4/25/2008
  Stichter, Bertha Yoder    
   
   
  Bertha Yoder Stichter Bertha Yoder Stichter, 100, of West Pierce Street, 
  Carlsbad, N.M., passed away April 21, 2008, at Lakeview Christian Home. A 
  memorial service is scheduled for Friday, April 25, 2008, 9 a.m. at Lakeview 
  Chapel with Chaplain Terry McKean officiating. Funeral services to be held at 
  Olive Mennonite Church in Wakarusa, Indiana, on Monday, April 28, 2008, at 10 
  a.m. Interment will follow at Olive Cemetery West, Wakarusa, Indiana. Denton-
  Wood Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Bertha Yoder Stichter was 
  born June 1, 1907, in Nappanee, Indiana, to Moses and Amanda (Hartman) Yoder. 
  She grew up in Wakarusa, Indiana, and graduated from high school. Bertha went 
  to work as a typesetter for the newspaper. She married "the man next door," 
  Fred Stichter, in 1938 and started their family. Bertha was a homemaker and 
  mother. All of her life she was active in supporting mission work and sewed 
  hundreds of babylayettes and quilts for missions and other projects. Following 
  her husband's retirement, together they went on disaster relief trips with 
  Mennonite Disaster Services. They moved to Carlsbad in 1984. Bertha was 
  preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Fred, in 1998; infant son Henry 
  Lee in 1942; step-daughter Esther Stichter in 1958; son-in-law Lee Eash in 
  2005; brothers Ray Yoder, Lloyd Yoder, Melvin Yoder and Elmer Yoder. Survivors 
  are daughter Eileen Eash of Carlsbad, N.M.; son Dennis Stichter and wife Connie 
  of Lebanon, Pa.; five grandchildren, Joanna (Eash) Harrison and husband Duane 
  of Lafayette, Colo., John Kenton Eash of Arlington, Mass., Will Stichter and 
  wife Lauren of Philadelphia, Pa., Mike Stichter of Cockeysville, Md., Kris 
  Stichter of Rochester, N.Y.; two greatgrandchildren, Isabella Harrison and 
  Parker Harrison; brother Victor Yoder and wife Lavonne of Indiana; numerous 
  nieces and nephews; and many other loving friends and unknown people who were 
  an important part of her life. Pallbearers are Joanna Harrison, Duane Harrison, 
  John Kenton Eash, Will Stichter, Mike Stichter, Kris Stichter. Memorial 
  contributions may be made to Bible Memory Program, c/o Carlsbad Mennonite 
  Church, 1204 West McKay Street, Carlsbad, NM 88220.  
  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 4/25/2008.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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