Lloyd Hostetler

Lloyd J. "Doc" Hostetler, age 88, of Glendive, formerly of Bloomfield, Montana, passed away on Monday, March 22, 2004 at the Glendive Medical Center Extended Care Facility in Glendive. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M., Friday, March 26, 2004 at the Evangelical Church of North America in Glendive with Pastors Fred Kanagy and Neville Peterson officiating. Following the funeral service, friends and family are invited to a reception at the church. Interment will be in the Red Top Mennonite Cemetery in Bloomfield, Montana. Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home of Glendive is entrusted with arrangements. Lloyd was born on December 20, 1915 on a farm east of Louisville, Ohio, the son of Alvin and Mary (Schloneger) Hostetler. He was the middle child in a family of nine children. Lloyd received his education in Ohio, attending Maple Grove and Pleasant Grove Schools, graduated from Louisville High School in 1933. During the summer months, Lloyd helped out on the family farm and helped with plowing, harrowing, planting corn, seeding oats and wheat, mowing and all other aspects of farm work that was done with horses. He also helped his uncle repairing and installing new roofs. Following high school, Lloyd worked for Byron Schmucker on his farm on a threshing machine. He went to work for Blizzard Manufacturing Company for a couple of years and later for Becker Dairy Farm for four years. In 1939, he was employed by Pete Wallace's Car Service Station. In 1942, Lloyd was drafted when the U.S. entered World War II. He went to Virginia and served in a Civilian Public Service Camp, working in soil conservation and fighting forest fires. In 1943, he volunteer to go to Terry, Montana to work in a C.P.S. Camp building the Buffalo Rapids Irrigation Project until the war was over. Here he met Kathryn Nissley and they were united in marriage on May 24, 1945. In 1946, they moved to Ohio for two years where Lloyd returned to work for Pete Wallace as Service Manager. In March of 1948, they moved back to Montana to farm near Bloomfield. In 1991, they retired from farming and rented the farmland to their son and his wife. In 1993, they moved into Glendive. Lloyd enjoyed auctioneering, playing table games and horse shoes with his friends, family and grandchildren. He also enjoyed traveling, fishing trips to Canada and hunting with his brother Robert at Broadus "Montana Beach". Special family memories include trips to the Black Hills, Yellowstone and Glacier Parks and trips back east to Ohio by car and by train. He served on the Board of Directors for Farmers Union in Bloomfield, Farmers Union Elevator in Richey, Production Credit Association in Glendive for nine years, and Mid Rivers Telephone for nine years, including terms as President for P.C.A. and Mid Rivers. He was instrumental in introducing and financing the Calvary Hour Program to local radio. He was active in Mennonite Disaster Service and was influential and supportive of home churches Red Top and White Chapel. Lloyd was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Chauncey and Roy. Survivors include his wife, Kathryn, of Glendive; three daughters, Berdine Eby and her husband Richard of Overland Park, Kansas, Jeanette Yoder and her husband Ray of Goshen, Indiana, Eileen Hostetler of St. Ignatius, Montana; one son, Larry Hostetler and his wife Cindi of Bloomfield, Montana; sisters, Ida Hostetler of Louisville, Ohio, Vesta Helmuth of Wingate, North Carolina and Grace Hostetler of Louisville, Ohio; brothers, Vernon Hostetler and his wife Barbara and Garrison Hostetler, all of Louisville, Ohio, and Robert Hostetler and his wife JoAnn of Condon, Montana; eight grandchildren, Shaun Troyer, Tricia Koester and her husband Roger, Jessica Bontreger, Derek Bontreger, Scott Bontreger, Matt Hostetler and his wife Kelly, Megan Hostetler and Monica Hostetler; two great grandchildren. Memorials are suggested to the Calvary Hour, C/O KGLE, P.O. Box 931, Glendive, Montana 59330.

Lloyd Hostetler

December 20, 1915 - March 26, 2004

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December 20, 1915 - March 26, 2004

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