Ruth Miller Yordy, 99, died Nov. 29, 2022. She was born Dec. 29, 1922, to Malvin and Anna Miller in Middlebury, Ind.

After graduating from Shipshewana High School in Indiana, she entered Goshen College in the secretarial studies program. While at Goshen she met Richard Yordy, who would become her husband of nearly 50 years. While Richard served as a Mennonite pastor in congregations across the Midwest, she served as an administrative assistant for small businesses, the Champaign school district in Illinois and Hesston College in Kansas.

She enjoyed cooking, tending roses, playing dominoes and spending time with family. She welcomed neighbors and friends to her table and was an invaluable part of Richard’s pastoral ministry. When that ministry took them to St. Jacobs, Ont., she became part of that community, which nourished her for the rest of her life.

A few years after Richard died, she married Lester Kropf of Albany, Ore. This started a new chapter of her life, splitting time between two communities and extended families. The connections between the Kropf and Yordy clans became a blessing to the entire family.

Survivors include three sons, Alan (Joan) Yordy, Phil (Jan) Yordy and Dave (Marilyn) Yordy; two siblings, Carroll Miller and Eloise Schrock; three grandchildren and a great-grandson.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Richard Yordy and Lester Kropf; and two siblings, Dan Miller and Mary Jean Schrock.

Memorial services were held at St. Jacobs Mennonite Church in Ontario. Memorial donations may be made to Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., and the Ralph and Eileen Lebold Endowment at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ont.