Charles D. Yoder was born in Somerset Co., Pa., May 9, 1872; died in McPherson Co., Kans., Sept. 26, 1923; aged 51 y. 4 m. and 7 d. At the age of six years he moved with his parents to the West and settled near what is now known as the West Liberty Church where he spent the remainder of his days. On Aug. 27, 1899, he was married to Susanna Heatwole. To this union were born ten children, five sons and five daughters, all of whom with the wife and mother survive him, and all attended the funeral except one son, Tillman, who is lying in the hospital in a semiconscious condition as the result of a kick on the side of his head by a horse. He is also survived by five brothers and four sisters. Bro. Yoder was converted at the age of 18 and united with the Mennonite Church. Five years later he was ordained to the ministry and served in this capacity faithfully the remainder of his life. He was not known to be absent from any meeting at the Church when his health at all permitted. His record shows that during the last thirty years he missed but one session of conference and then he was away from home attending another conference. He served as secretary of the Kansas-Nebraska Conference for a number of years. He attended the common schools and later McPherson College preparing himself for usefulness in life, having taught school for a number of years in his early ministry. He was of a quiet and unassuming disposition and for this reason his real worth was not generally recognized. As a minister he stood staunchly for all the doctrines of the Word and of the Church. As the end drew near it seemed that his chief concern was for the welfare of his home congregation. He requested that the Church be kept free from worldliness, formality and false doctrine. His death was caused by an infection from a bruise received last winter while cutting hedge. He was treated in three different hospitals and underwent five operations, but it seems his time had come and the Lord took him away in peace, resignation and the full assurance of future glory. Funeral was held Sept. 28. Services at the house by Bro. Allen Erb and at the Church by the Brethren M. A. Yoder, T. M. Erb, and D. H. Bender. Text, "He hath done all things well."