DOVER - Amanda (Bontrager) Byler, 88, of Dover, died Friday, September 18, 2015 at her home. Born April 15, 1927, in Dodge City, Kansas, she was the daughter of Ezra and Sovilla (Yoder) Bontrager. She recalled memories of her family's move by train from Kansas to Dover, when she was two years old to escape the devastation of the Dust Bowl. She married Joe W. Byler in 1945 and together they gave themselves to raise their family of nine children. While raising her family, Amanda gave herself selflessly to serve her church in various ways such as teaching Sunday school and serving oversees missions which included collecting clothes, making comforters, and assembling baby bundles. She loved worshipping her Lord Jesus with her church family at Maranatha Fellowship, Dover, of which she was a founding member. She enjoyed exercising her gift of hospitality to friends, family, and traveling missionaries. Her joy was sending her guests away with a full stomach and warmed heart. In 1974 Amanda joined her husband in opening and managing a small surplus grocery outlet, which grew to what is now Byler's Store of Dover and Harrington. Amanda enjoyed building warm relationships with many of their customers and staff. She was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Alta Nisly; an infant granddaughter, Baby Girl Lapp; son-in-law, Willis Bontrager; three brothers, Eli, Samuel, and John Bontrager; five sisters, Mary Felty, Katie Byler, Fannie Bontrager, Elizabeth Bontrager, and Lovina Yoder. Amanda is survived by her husband, Joe W. Byler; six daughters, Ida Mae Lapp and husband Daniel of Dover, Esther Bontrager of Sullivan, Ill., Mary Ann Christophel and husband Kirk of Worton, Md., Phyllis Maust and husband LaVern of Salisbury, Pa., Erma Yoder and husband Paul of Dover, and Sharon Kropf and husband Harold of Dover; two sons, Joseph married to Naomi of Salisbury, Pa. and Lyndon, married to Jolene of Dover; 44 grandchildren; 65 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandson; two sisters, Lydia Emerson and Millie Byler. A viewing will be held Monday, September 21, 2015 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Maranatha Fellowship Church, 60 Deer Track Lane, Dover. Funeral services will be held, 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at Calvary Baptist Church, 163 Victory Chapel Road, Dover, officiated by her sons, Pastors Lyndon and Joe Byler. Interment will be in Sharon Hills Memorial Park, Dover. In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions be made to the Rosedale Mennonite Missions, 2120 E. 5th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43219. Letters of condolences may be sent and guest book signed at www.torbertfuneral.com.