Rose Evangeline (Yoder) Schwartz

(The following obituary is for a grand-daughter of William Edgar McCulloh)

Evangeline Y. ‘Linny’ Schwartz YORK

Evangeline Y. ‘Linny’ (Yoder) Schwartz, 67, entered into rest Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 5:45 p.m. at York Hospital after a brief illness. She was the wife of M. Samuel Schwartz who she married November 25, 1960. Born November 24, 1936, in Manheim, she was the daughter of Vida M. (McCulloh) Yoder of Harrisburg and the late Leroy G. Yoder.

Mrs. Schwartz was a Registered Nurse doing private duty nursing. She was a member and Deaconess of Pleasant View Brethren in Christ Church in Red Lion; former member of the York County Private Registered Nurses Association; and a current member of the Ladies Auxiliary, York Rescue Mission.

In addition to her mother and husband, Mrs. Schwartz is survived by three sons, Dwight A. Schwartz and his wife Maria E. of Baltimore, Md., Leroy E. Schwartz and his wife Tracy L. of York, and Maurice E. Schwartz and his wife Denise M. of Pittsburgh; one daughter, Bethanne V. Schott and her husband, Matthew E. of Felton; six beloved grandchildren; three brothers, L. William Yoder of Chelmsford, Mass., David L. Yoder of Bowmansdale, and Lawrence M. Yoder of Harrisonburg, Va.; two sisters, Margaret Yoder Groff of Mechanicsburg and S. Kathleen Yoder of Harrisburg; and numerous beloved nieces and nephews.

Viewings will be Sunday, October 17, 2004, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Burg Funeral Home, Inc., 134 W. Broadway, Red Lion, and Monday from 9 to 10 a.m. at Living Word Community Church, 2530 Cape Horn Road (Rt. 24), Red Lion. The service will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the church, with the Rev. Kenneth R. Gibson, pastor of Pleasant View Brethren in Christ Church in Red Lion, officiating. Burial will be in Susquehanna Memorial Gardens.

Memorial contributions may be made to Pleasant View Brethren in Christ Church, 434 E. Lancaster Avenue, Red Lion, PA 17356; or to the York Rescue Mission, 363-373 W. Market St., PO Box 1968, York, PA 174051968.

Published in York Daily Record & York Dispatch on Oct. 16, 2004

Rose Evangeline (Yoder) Schwartz