OBIT: Sadie (SWARTZENTRUBER) YODER, 1949, formerly of Somerset County, PA 

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SADIE YODER

  Mrs. Sadie Swartzentruber Yoder, wife of Noah E. Yoder, Stuarts Draft, Va., 
passed away suddenly at her home, on April 30, 1949, from a heart attack, at the 
age of 82 years.  She had been in delicate health for a number of years.
  She was born in Garrett County, Maryland, April 28, 1876, the daughter of 
Jacob and Elizabeth (Hershberger) Swartzentruber.  She is survived by her 
husband, two brothers, Daniel of Oakland, Md., Noah of Montgomery, Ind., one 
sister, Mrs. Abe Yoder of Arthur, Ill., and a large number of nieces and 
nephews.  She was preceded in death by six brothers and two sisters.
  On Dec. 5, 1886, she was married near Meyersdale, Pa., to Noah E. Yoder, son 
of Elias A. Yoder and Elizabeth Brenneman Yoder.  They lived many years on the 
farm now owned and operated by Galen Peck near Meyersdale, where they were the 
most prosperous farmers and were known and esteemed for their sincere 
friendliness and hospitality and Christian lives.
  From Meyersdale they moved with others of their faith to near Norfolk, Va., 
where they were pioneers to the Amish Mennonite settlement there.  After many 
years and while living semi-retired lives, they moved, about six years ago, to a 
new home near Stuarts Draft, Va.
  The Yoders have many friends among many classes of people.  Not only counting 
them among those of their own faith, but among people of every walk of life, to 
whom they extended friendliness and hospitality.  Mrs. Yoder will be greatly 
missed in her home, in the church and community and by the many who have known 
the hospitality of her home.
  Funeral services were held at the Amish Mennonite church house near Stuarts 
Draft on May 3, and were conducted by the ministers Lewis Beachy and Daniel 
Petersheim of Oakland, Md., and Eli Beachy of Arthur, Ill.  A large number of 
people attended, including many relatives and friends, from Iowa, Illinois, 
Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and several regions of Virginia, 
especially their former home community near Norfolk.
  Miss Salome Kinsinger, a niece of Mr. Yoder who has been as one of the family 
for years, will continue as housekeeper for Mr. Yoder who is over 86 years old.

Meyersdale Republican, May 12, 1949