OBIT: Richard Bruce YODER, 1993, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  YODER
  
    Richard Bruce Yoder, 63, of Morgantown, W. Va., died Feb. 16, 1993,
  at Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown.  Born Sept. 25, 1929, at
  Meyersdale, he was a son of the late George Ernest and Lena (Bender)
  Yoder.  Yoder was a real estate developer and builder, member of
  Springs Mennonite Church, chairman of the board of trustees of West
  Run Watershed Improvement District, past president, W.Va. Home
  Builders Assoc., past president North Central Home Builders Assoc. 
  Life Director in National Home Builders.  Member, W.Va. Housing
  Development Fund, president of Allegheny Development Corp., president
  of Maple View Realty Co., president of Allegheny Real Estate Sales,
  board of directors for Region VI Planning and Development Council,
  vice president of Pineview Realty Inc. and Pineview Supply Corp.  He
  received a bachelor of arts degree from Goshen College, Goshen, Ind.,
  and a bachelor of divinity and a master's in religious education from
  Associated Biblical Seminaries, also in Goshen.  He also received a
  bachelor of theology degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary,
  Gettysburg, and attended Hartford Seminary, Hartford, Ct., and W.Va. 
  University, Morgantown.  Survivors include two brothers, David H.
  Yoder, Morgantown, and Omar C. Yoder, Brussels, Belgium; 5 sisters:
  Miriam I. Lindeman, Salisbury; Ida I. Yoder and Freda E. Yoder, both
  of Kensington, Md.; Eleanor A. Nucelli, Gettysburg, and Delilah R.
  Yoder, missing in Ecuador.  Friends will be received from 3 to 5 and
  7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Hastings Funeral Home, Morgantown, and from
  2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Newman Funeral Home, Grantsville, Md.
  Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Springs Mennonite
  Church, Springs, with the Rev. Steven Heatwole and the Rev. Earl Yoder
  officiating.  Interment, Oakdale Cemetery.  Family requests, in lieu
  of flowers, contributions to Goshen College, 1700 S. Main, Goshen,
  Ind. 46526 or Spruce Forest Artisan Village, Yoder House, Route 2,
  Box 5, Grantsville, Md. 21536.
  
  Daily American, February 18, 1993
  
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