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EVELYN GENTIS Obituary
EVELYN R. (CLAUSER) GENTIS, 93, passed away Monday, March 29, 2010, at Swiss Village, Berne. Born in Allentown, Pa., she was a homemaker. She was a member of First Missionary Church, The Agenda Club and sang many years on the Missionary Hour radio program. She is survived by her daughter, Jean Seaman of Fort Wayne; son-in-law, Martin Gerding of Fort Wayne; sister, Norma Von Gunten of Fort Wayne; grandchildren, Laurie (Ted) Habegger, Sandy Gerding, Jill (Craig) Eakright, and Julie (Chuck) Collier; great-grandchildren, Kallie (Doug) Crider, Rachel Lavins, Shae and Paige Eakright, Jake and Spencer Collier; and great-great-grandchildren, Austin and Molly Lavins. She was preceded in death by her husband, Don Gentis, in 1981; and daughter, Susan Gerding, in 2010. Service is 3 p.m. Thursday at D.O. McComb & Sons Foster Park Funeral Home, 6301 Fairfield Avenue, with calling from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. prior to service. The Rev. Jim Johnson officiating. Burial in Decatur Cemetery, Decatur. Memorials may be made to the Christian Homemakers Sunday School Class c/o First Missionary Church or Adams County Hospice. To sign the online guestbook, visit www.mccombandsons.comTo plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
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March 31, 2010
Dear Jean and Evie's family,
I am so sorry to read of the loss of Evie. I was recently going through some pictures of my mother's and was looking at some pictures of your mother, mine (Phyllis Rupert) and Norma as young women taken at a lake cottage where they were staying. What a good time they were obviously having! Mom and your mother had been friends for over 65 years. They were in the same Sunday School class, sang together in church, in Agenda Club together, were at the same mobile home park in Florida, saw each other through the deaths of their husbands and remained friends until the day my mother died. I have such good memories of your mother from a little girl on. I know the feeling of losing your mother, but I believe that the joy I saw in their faces in the pictures I saw, will only be maginified in the presence of God. It is so hard to say good-bye to the ones we love, but what a wonderful day it will be as Christians when we can all say hello again.
I was saddened to read also, that Susan had died in Feb. I was away and didn't see it in the paper. I am so very sorry. My prayers and thoughts are with all of you, my sincerest sympathy, Cheri (Rupert) Mattox
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