Lloyd H. Mendenhall (1970)

MENDENHALL, HADLEY, HAMMOND, STANDING, DEVAULT

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/7/2008 at 16:28:39

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
December 31, 1970

Services Held for Lloyd Mendenhall

Funeral services were held Wednesday for Lloyd Mendenhall, 82, at Bear Creek Friends church. Mr. Mendenhall passed away Monday, December 28, at the Dexter Clinic.

Rev. Kenneth Santee conducted the service. Gertrude Conrad and Berneita Patience sang a duet, accompanied at the piano by Berniece Hadley. Maudie Applegate, Elaine Crabbs, Mabel Barnett and Jeannie Cook cared for the flowers.

Casket bearers were Willard Barnett, Clyde Barnett, Lyle Cook, William Hurst, Raymond Hurst and Russell Applegate. Interment was in the Earlham cemetery.

Evans Service handled the arrangements.

Note: Burial was at Bear Creek Cemetery, Dallas County, Iowa, not the Earlham Cemetery as published.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
January 7, 1971

Obituary

Lloyd H. Mendenhall, son of John J. and Samira R. Mendenhall, was born February 9, 1889, on a farm north of Earlham. The family moved to the Isaac Hadley homestead when Lloyd was a small boy, and after a brief sojourn at Paonia, Colorado, returned there, but soon bought the James Hadley place, which has been the Mendenhall family home since that time.

Lloyd attended the Bear Creek school and Earlham Academy, and graduated from Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1912. He took a year of graduate work at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. After his marriage to Louise Hammond of LeGrand, Iowa, on August 28, 1913, he taught one year at Pacific College, Newberg, Oregon. He and Louise spent a year in training for mission work at Hartford, Connecticut, then had a three-year period of service in Cuba under the American Friends Board of Missions. Later he served a few months in the Friends’ work in Mexico. They returned to the farm in 1919, where they took an active part in church and community affairs until Louise’s death in August, 1928.

Three sons came to bless the home of Lloyd and Louise: Herschel, born at Hartford; Orville, born in Cuba, and Charles, born after their return to the farm. Orville’s sunny brief life ended while they were visiting relatives in California.

On December 27, 1929, Lloyd Mendenhall and Orpha Hadley were married at Newton, and they continued to live a happy home life on the farm. They were loved and useful members of Bear Creek church and community until Orpha’s death March 14, 1963. Lloyd continued to live on the farm.

One pleasant association of his later years was participation in the “Over 60” group in Earlham. This led to re-acquaintance with Hazel DeVault of Earlham, and on November 17, 1966, they were united in marriage at the Earlham Friends church. They had a congenial companionship, though only for a brief time, for death came to her on January 8, 1967.

Lloyd Mendenhall served in many capacities in the local Friends church and in Bear Creek Quarterly Meeting, of which he was presiding clerk for 30 years. He was also on the Permanent Board of Iowa Yearly Meeting. Another activity that he enjoyed was being a member of the Dallas County Board of Review for over 20 years.

He leaves to cherish his memory his family: Herschel and Mildred Mendenhall of Pleasant Plain; Charles and Martha Mendenhall of Earlham; his granddaughters, Linda Mendenhall, a senior at William Penn College, Oskaloosa, and Karen Mendenhall, a freshman at Friends Bible College, Haviland, Kansas. Also surviving are one brother, Raymond, with his wife, DeOla, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and one sister, Mildred Standing and husband, Bernard, of Earlham; the Hazel DeVault family, and many other relatives and friends.

Brought up in a Christian home and a birthright member of Bear Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, Lloyd was led to accept Christ as his Savior and Master at an early age and continued to grow in the Christian faith as he matured. His gentle Christian influence was felt by his family and by all those with whom he associated. He believed that the Christian concern should embrace the welfare of the under-privileged and minority groups and that peaceful methods should replace war in international relations. As opportunity came, he put these concerns into action.

After several months of failing health, Lloyd departed this life at the Dexter hospital on December 27, 1970.

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