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Birth:
Foreldre var Ray S Yoder (1886-1962) og Lettie Arilla Mae Dillon Yoder (1889-1980).

Buried:
Riverside Cemetery.
Private family services for Otho "O.B." Yoder, 87, of Saugatuck, Mich., were held at Saugatuck Chapel at Dykstra Funeral Home. Burial was in Riverside Cememtery. Mr. Yoder died Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1995, at Holland Community Hospital, Holland, Mich.

Mr. Yoder was born April 27, 1908, in Elkhart, Indiana to Ray S. Yoder & Lettie Dillon Yoder. He graduated from Elkhart High School in 1926 and from Purdue University in 1930, with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He ran track in both high school and college and was a member of the record-setting 1925 Elkhart High relay team of Yoder, Teeters, Trautman and Steele whose record stood for about 40 years. He was a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity.

Mr. Yoder was employed as a metallurgical engineer at ALCOA, retiring after 43 years. He had worked for ALCOA in new Kensington, and Pittsburgh, Pa., and ALCOA, Tennessee. He served as Assistant Chief Metalurgist at the plant in Pleasant Valley, Ia. He also served as an international representative for ALCOA with the Furakawa Aluminum Company in Nikko, Japan and for five years with Lipps Aluminum in Drunen, Netherlands.

O.B. was an avid golfer and shot a hole-in-one on Oct. 12, 1984 at the 17th hole of the West Shore Golf Club in Douglas, Mich. He was a member of the Douglas Community Church for over 22 years. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Phyllis Pamperien Yoder; two sons, Kirby Yoder of Shanghai, China, and Chris Yoder of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; grandchildren Ray, Roy, and Ryan Yoder of Ia., Christian and Jerusha Yoder of Tn.; great-grandson Andrew Yoder & a brother Raymond Yoder of Elkhart, In.

Otho married Millicent Lucinda Bitters, "Yoder" before 1935. Millicent was born on 23 Sep 1910; died on 26 Apr 1941. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Bradley Morton Yoder was born on 21 Apr 1935; died on 21 Apr 1935; was buried after 21 Apr 1935 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA.

Otho married Phyllis Pamperien, "Yoder" on 28 Jun 1948. Phyllis (daughter of Frederick George Pamperien and Lilian Hayden Austermell, "Pamperien") was born on 29 Mar 1913 in LaGrange, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 16 Jan 2005 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, USA; was buried after 16 Jan 2005 in Saugatuck, Allegan, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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