Leona LaRue Bair

December 15, 2013

Leona LaRue Bair of Lancaster and formerly of Altoona went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, December 15, 2013. Born in Altoona, she was the daughter of the late Randall and Martha (LaRue) Bair.

She attended the East End Methodist Church where she came to know the Lord at age 13. After college, she entered nurse’s training in Philadelphia, after which she attended graduate school for more Bible training at Columbia International University in South Carolina.

Leona joined the Overseas Missionary Fellowship, formerly the China Inland Mission, spending 38 years in Thailand. She lived mostly in hill villages with the Hmong people whom she loved. Upon retiring in 1998, she came home and eventually was happy to settle in Lancaster where there is a large group of Hmong people and a Hmong church.

Leona is survived by several nieces and nephews and many cousins. She was preceded in death by her sisters, Loretta Kaufman and Dorothy Hoover, and a brother, Clarence Bair.

Funeral services will be held at 9 AM Saturday, December 21, 2013 at Charles F. Snyder, Jr. Funeral Home & Crematory, 3110 Lititz Pike, Lititz, PA with Pastor Dao Yang and Rev. Yong Xeng Yang officiating. Friends will be received at the funeral home from 6 to 8 PM on Friday, December 20, 2013. Burial will be in Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery.

Kindly omit flowers. Memorial contributions in Leona’s memory may be made to OMF International, 10 W. Dry Creek Cir., Littleton, CO 80120 or to Hmong Alliance Church, 9 S. Hershey Ave., Leola, PA 17540.

“Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.” Psalms 23