Grace Hermon Yoder

YODER, HERMON, YOUNG, BLYSTAD, MARKHAM, POLAND, HOLMES

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 4/11/2006 at 19:22:24

Wintersest Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
May 1963

MRS. FRED YODER, Native Of Winterset Dies in Colorado

Funeral services were held May 6 at Boulder, Colo., for Mrs. Fred Yoder of that city, a native of Madison county. Her death occurred May 3, 1963, following a heart attack. She was 72 years of age.

Mrs. Yoder was the former Grace Hermon, daughter of Ezra and Emretta Young Hermon of near Wintersest. She was born here Feb. 3, 1890.

She was married Oct. 4, 1912 to Fred Yoder. They moved to Boulder in 1921, and had continued to make their home there since that time.

Mrs. Yoder is survived by her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Nick Blystad of Monrovia, California and Mrs. Lois Markham of Scotts Bluff, Nebr.; two grandaughters, two sisters, Mrs. Sula Poland of Winterset and Mrs. Ethel Holmes of Sacramento, Calif.; and two brothers, Elvert Hermon of Long Beach, Calif., and Roy Hermon of Winterset.