Switchman - Gene Yoder, Darlow, KS
Posted by: The Snowdog
N 37° 55.482 W 097° 58.576
14S E 589974 N 4197954
Gene Yoder was a switchman for the Rock Island and Union Pacific Railroads for forty years - in Pleasant View Cemetery, southwest of Darlow, Kansas.
Waymark Code: WM13PME
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2021
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Gene Yoder is interred in Pleasant View Cemetery, southwest of Darlow, Kansas. According to his obituary (linked above) he was a switchman for the Rock Island Railroad, and later the Union Pacific Railroad, for forty years. A Union Pacific diesel locomotive is engraved on his marker. His wife Susan is still living at this time; her side of the double headstone is inscribed with a knitting needle and spool of yarn.