Jerry Jost, 80, died Monday at Hillsboro Community Hospital.  

A funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m. Friday at Parkview Church, Hillsboro.  Interment will be at Gnadenau Cemetery, rural Hillsboro.

Family will receive guests from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Jost Funeral Home in Hillsboro.  

He was born Nov. 6, 1936, to John F. and LuElla (Reimer) Jost in Wyandotte County, Kansas.  

He married Joan Mellott June 14, 1959, in Newton.  

Survivors include his wife, Joan Jost of Hillsboro; sons, Keith Jost of McPherson, and Kent Jost of Hesston; daughter Karen Miles of Hillsboro; brother Lowell Jost of Hillsboro; brother-in-law Charles Siebert of Garden City; 13 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild.  

A memorial has been established with Tabor College Athletics.