Eunice May (Gingerich) Histand (1914-2006)

Eunice May Histand formerly Gingerich

Born 30 May 1914 in Versailles, Morgan, Missouri

Ancestors

Daughter of Amos Joseph Gingerich and Nannie Delilah (Yoder) Gingerich

Sister of Charity Irene (Gingerich) Troyer, Amos Leroy Gingerich, Fred Gingerich, Truman Walter Gingerich, Paul Edward Gingerich, Orie Gingerich, Lois (Gingerich) Bender, [private brother (1920s - unknown)] and Clayton Gingerich

Wife of Nelson W. Histand — married 17 Jul 1938 in Hesston, Harvey, Kansas

Mother of [private daughter (1930s - unknown)], [private daughter (1940s - unknown)], [private daughter (1940s - unknown)], [private son (1940s - unknown)], [private daughter (1940s - unknown)], [private son (1940s - unknown)], [private son (1950s - unknown)] and [private son (1950s - unknown)]

Died 29 Sep 2006 at age 92 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Eunice was born in 1914. She is the daughter of Amos Gingerich and Nannie Yoder.

Obituary

(Unsourced obituary from Find A Grave Memorial record) 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.

Sources

Gingerich, Amos. The Faith and Life of the Family of Frederick Swartzendruber and Sarah Yoder. Self-published, 1958.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27714001/eunice-may-histand: accessed 13 January 2023), memorial page for Eunice May Gingerich Histand (30 May 1914–29 Sep 2006), Find A Grave: Memorial #27714001, citing Eastlawn Cemetery, Zimmerdale, Harvey County, Kansas, USA; Maintained by GarberEppHartzlerYoder History (contributor 46868241).

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eunice by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eunice:

~12.50% ~12.50% Andrea Zuercher : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A554972 [compare], Ancestry member andrea_zuercher
~1.56% Doug Stutzman : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A266328 [compare], yourDNAportal DOUb94466d7, Ancestry member sallyanne_stutzman