Once A Refugee, Now A Farm Wife
(Continued from Pago B 2)
After eight years of schooling,
Ruth worked in a weaving and
knitting factory.
When Ruth was 23 yean old,
she married one of those Pax
American boys—Kenneth Yoder.
After they were married, they
returned to the U.S. in 1960 and
settled in Grantsville, Md. They
live on a 237-acre daily farm that
has been in the Yoder family for
many generations. The Yoders
milk 80 cows on their farm named
Cornucopia. The prefix for their
registered Hosteins is
Schoencnberg.
Ruth’s husband Kenneth is also
an ordained minister at Oakdale
Mennonite Church.
The Yoders have seven child
ren, who are now adults. Heidi
Dwight and Annetta help on the
farm and take courses at a nearby
community college. The Yoders’
oldest daughter Sylvia manied to
Bill Mast and their three children
also live on a diary farm and milk
about 120 Holsteins. Isolde is a
secretary and has two children.
Karen and Marvin Tice recently
had a baby, Diik and his wife Karin
have a construction business and
are expecting their first baby in
April.
“My experience in a refugee
camp taught me what it is to get,
along with a lot less. I still don’t
like to throw things away,” Ruth
said.
“We raised our children diffe
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rently, too. They often recall that
when they came home from
school, they were never allowed
more than two slices of bread for a
snack. Although they complained
then, now they say they are grate
ful because none are overweight,”
Ruth said.
Memories of the camp continue
to influence Ruth. She said, *Tn
camp, we had turnips brought in by
the truckload. The turnips woe
cooked in everything. I haven’t
eaten them since.”
In Denmark, benches were the
only seals available. When the
Yoders had seven children. Ruth’s
husbandremarked that they should
have a bench to sit on at die table
because it allows more people to
sit in a smaller area.
Ruth was aghast “I didn’t want
a bench in my house because it
reminded me of camp,” she said.
Since Ruth was the only one of
her family to move to America, she
and her husband returned to Ger
many many times to visit family
members. Her father died in 1988,
and her mother last year. This year,
for the first time, her two brothers
and two sisters plan to visit Ruth in
Maryland.
Ruth and her siblings have never
forgotten the hope extended to her
family through the help of MCC.
“Until you live through it (being
a refugee), you cannot realize how
such help is appreciated.” She said,
“Besides providing material help,
the MCC personnel had a big influ
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