Alumni News & Notes 1930-49
Greencroft Dr., Goshen IN 46526, died March 1, 2020.
DEATHS
Charlene Heatwole Nielsen ’49, La Junta, Colo., died Feb. 24, 2020.
Florence Richer Aschliman ’37, Archbold, Ohio, died Aug. 13, 2019. Lauralyn Fountain Atz ’43, Venice, Fla., died June 22, 2019. Royal H. Bauer ’46, Goshen, died Dec. 29, 2019. Mary Alspaugh Bontrager ’42, Goshen, died Jan. 14, 2020. Gladys Hershberger Cone ’49, South Bend, Ind., died Jan. 16, 2020. Robert A. Ebersole ’48, Goshen, died Jan. 3, 2020.
Geneva Stamm Shetler ’40, Bluffton, Ohio, died Sept. 13, 2019. Russell D. Shriner, husband of Mabel Yoder Shriner ’46, 28340 County Rd. 32, Elkhart IN 46517, died Oct. 10, 2019. Mildred Yoder Troyer ’45, Goshen, died Feb. 20, 2020. Robert F. Weaver ’41, Anacortes, Wash., died Sept. 20, 2019. Marjorie Yoder Wideman ’47, Akron, N.Y., died Feb. 2, 2019.
Ada Brenneman Fisher ’43, Kalona, Iowa, died Dec. 7, 2019.
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Anne Wenger Gunden ’40, Sarasota, Fla., died Nov. 20, 2019.
NOTES
Ruth Kreider Heatwole ’46, wife of Kenneth M. Heatwole ’46, 1401 Virginia Ave., Apt. 110, Harrisonburg VA 22802, died March 8, 2020. Klara Muntinga Hill ’43, Syracuse, Ind., died Feb. 19, 2019. Rose Hutchinson ’35, Beaverton, Ore., died April 25, 2020, at age 106. She was Goshen College’s oldest living alumnus, and “a spark of vitality and joy for us at Goshen College through the years,” said GC President Rebecca Stoltzfus.
Violet Keens Barr ’56 continues to listen to first graders read once a week for an hour at the Shippensburg (Pa.) Laboratory School. Joyce Eigsti Hofer ’53 and Samuel H. Hofer, Littleton, Colo., celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on a coastal cruise from Charleston, S.C., to Jacksonville, Fla. 1 DEATHS Carol Teuscher Beachey ’58, wife of Donald Voth, 334 Buena Vista Pl., Memphis TN 38112, died Oct. 19, 2019. Moses A. Beachy ’57, Goshen, died Sept. 14, 2019.
Ruth Kauffman Deweiler ’57, wife of Lowell Detweiler ’58, 1001 E. Oregon Rd., Lititz PA 17543, died Jan. 6, 2020. Julia Latta Dietz ’50, Austin, Texas, died Sept. 17, 2019. Charles E. Disher Jr. ’56, Nappanee, Ind., died Nov. 17, 2019. Doris Eberly Falk ’55, Mountain Lake, Minn., died Nov. 9, 2019. Rosemary Blosser Fry ’54, Goshen, died Sept. 9, 2019. Clark L. Gerber, husband of Phyllis Miller Gerber ’59, 5350 Mulberry Ln., Sheffield Village OH 44035, died Dec. 11, 2019. Clayton E. Gingerich ’51, Kalona, Iowa, died Jan. 19, 2020. Leona Parmer Grove ’50, Mechanicsburg, Pa., died Feb. 5, 2020. Bruce Hanna, husband of Iretta Bradford Hanna ’57, 8890 W. 575 S., Hudson IN 46747, died March 12, 2020. Bernice Rupp Hartzell ’55, wife of Ward Hartzell, 87 Mt. Vista Ln., Twisp WA 98856, died Oct. 31, 2019. Susan Walter Howard ’59, wife of James Howard, 15063 Birch Lakeshore Dr., Vandalia MI 49095, died Nov. 5, 2019.
Charlotte Burkhart Biris ’54, Lancaster, Pa., died Jan.1, 2020.
Donald R. Jacobs ’47, husband of Anna Ruth Jacobs, 2118 Lyndell Dr., Lancaster PA 17601, died Feb. 11, 2020.
Ronald L. Birkey ’59, husband of Lorraine Stealy Birkey ’59, 16008 W. Vinewood Dr., Surprise AZ 85374, died Feb. 1, 2020.
Ralph S. Lehman ’44, husband of Evelyn Lehman, 3039 Ivy Ct., North Newton KS 67117, died Nov. 21, 2019.
Grace Derstine Brunner ’54, Hesston, Kan., died Dec. 11, 2019.
H. Francis Schrock, husband of L. Eloise Miller Bontrager Schrock ’49, 1225
John R. Burkholder ’52 (faculty ’63-85), husband of Susan Herr Burkholder ’52 (faculty ’75-77), 1801 Greencroft Blvd., Apt. 313, Goshen IN 46526, died Dec. 20, 2019.
Marilyn Miller Burkey ’59, wife of Lester Burkey ’55, 572 W. 900 S., Hebron IN 46341, died Nov. 27, 2019.
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