Eunice May Histand, 92, of Greencroft Retirement Community in Goshen, Ind., died Sept. 29, 2006, at Goshen General Hospital.
She was born May 30, 1914, in Versailles, Mo., to Amos and Nannie (Yoder) Gingerich.
She graduated from Hesston (Kan.) Academy in 1933 and Hesston College in 1936. She obtained a teaching certificate from Kansas State Teachers College in Hays and taught school for two years before her marriage to Nelson W. Histand, an ordained minister, on July 17, 1938.
Together they served Mennonite churches in Culp, Ark., Pryor, Okla., Dunlap, Ind., Noxubee County, Miss., Parnell, Iowa, and Carlsbad, N.M. In Carlsbad she was a teacher's aide in a school for special education and disabled children. They also farmed in Oklahoma, Mississippi and Iowa.
They retired to Hesston in 1981, where he died in March 1988. She moved to Greencroft in 1989 to be closer to family.
Memorial services were held at College Mennonite Church in Goshen. Burial will be at Eastlawn Cemetery, Hesston, Kan.
She was born May 30, 1914, in Versailles, Mo., to Amos and Nannie (Yoder) Gingerich.
She graduated from Hesston (Kan.) Academy in 1933 and Hesston College in 1936. She obtained a teaching certificate from Kansas State Teachers College in Hays and taught school for two years before her marriage to Nelson W. Histand, an ordained minister, on July 17, 1938.
Together they served Mennonite churches in Culp, Ark., Pryor, Okla., Dunlap, Ind., Noxubee County, Miss., Parnell, Iowa, and Carlsbad, N.M. In Carlsbad she was a teacher's aide in a school for special education and disabled children. They also farmed in Oklahoma, Mississippi and Iowa.
They retired to Hesston in 1981, where he died in March 1988. She moved to Greencroft in 1989 to be closer to family.
Memorial services were held at College Mennonite Church in Goshen. Burial will be at Eastlawn Cemetery, Hesston, Kan.
Eunice May Histand, 92, of Greencroft Retirement Community in Goshen, Ind., died Sept. 29, 2006, at Goshen General Hospital.
She was born May 30, 1914, in Versailles, Mo., to Amos and Nannie (Yoder) Gingerich.
She graduated from Hesston (Kan.) Academy in 1933 and Hesston College in 1936. She obtained a teaching certificate from Kansas State Teachers College in Hays and taught school for two years before her marriage to Nelson W. Histand, an ordained minister, on July 17, 1938.
Together they served Mennonite churches in Culp, Ark., Pryor, Okla., Dunlap, Ind., Noxubee County, Miss., Parnell, Iowa, and Carlsbad, N.M. In Carlsbad she was a teacher's aide in a school for special education and disabled children. They also farmed in Oklahoma, Mississippi and Iowa.
They retired to Hesston in 1981, where he died in March 1988. She moved to Greencroft in 1989 to be closer to family.
Memorial services were held at College Mennonite Church in Goshen. Burial will be at Eastlawn Cemetery, Hesston, Kan.
She was born May 30, 1914, in Versailles, Mo., to Amos and Nannie (Yoder) Gingerich.
She graduated from Hesston (Kan.) Academy in 1933 and Hesston College in 1936. She obtained a teaching certificate from Kansas State Teachers College in Hays and taught school for two years before her marriage to Nelson W. Histand, an ordained minister, on July 17, 1938.
Together they served Mennonite churches in Culp, Ark., Pryor, Okla., Dunlap, Ind., Noxubee County, Miss., Parnell, Iowa, and Carlsbad, N.M. In Carlsbad she was a teacher's aide in a school for special education and disabled children. They also farmed in Oklahoma, Mississippi and Iowa.
They retired to Hesston in 1981, where he died in March 1988. She moved to Greencroft in 1989 to be closer to family.
Memorial services were held at College Mennonite Church in Goshen. Burial will be at Eastlawn Cemetery, Hesston, Kan.
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