OBIT: Eli L. YODER, 1983, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  ELI L. YODER
  
    Eli L. Yoder, 86, of Grantsville, Maryland, died January 5, 1983 at his
  residence.
    Born near Grantsville, he was a son of the late Lewis Yoder and Elizabeth
  (Beachy) Yoder.
    He was a member of the Mt. View Christian Fellowship Church and was the
  founder of Yoder's Locker Plant. For a number of years, Mr. Yoder served as
  president of Yoder's, Inc.
    He is survived by his widow, Amanda (Hershberger) Yoder; four sons. Henry
  E. Yoder and Paul H. Yoder, both of Grantsville; Ernest E. Yoder and John
  Yoder, both of Salisbury; four daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Beachy and Mrs. Lena
  Beachy, Salisbury; Mrs. Edna Beachy, Haiti, and Mrs. Mabel Schrock,
  Grantsville; three brothers, Simon Yoder, Montezuma, Ga.; Henry Yoder,
  Springs; Norman Yoder, Grantsville; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Tice, Grantsville;
  and Mrs. Sarah Stotzfus, Honey Brook; 46 grandchildren and 37
  great-grandchildren.
    Friends were received at the Newman Funeral Home.
    Services were conducted in the Mt. View Christian Fellowship Church by the
  Rev. Lewis Tice and Rev. Henry Tice. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
    The family requests that expressions of sympathy be directed to O.M.S.,
  Greenwood, Ind.
  
  The Republic, January 13, 1983