Yoder-Culp provides comfort amidst grief

On the south side of Goshen,Yoder-Culp Funeral Home is quiet. Death passes through its rooms every day. It stops for no one. “Sometimes they’re still warm when [we pick up the body],” said Tim Yoder, 70, owner of the funeral home. “Other times you go to a big city hospital, the body may be there a couple of days and then they’re cold. I mean the feeling is that the blood isn’t moving there. It isn’t something that’s necessarily normal; I think you have to become acclimated to it.” On a daily basis, Yoder comes face-to-face with death. Living and...

By Phil Witmer-Rich • November 10, 2022 • Features