Surflight Theatre has lost a valued long-time supporter to complications of COVID-19.

Bill Yoder, 87, passed away on April 5.

Yoder graduated from Abington High School in Abingtron, Pa. in 1952. He had started working in the field of journalism long before that, taking a job at the age of 14 at the offices of the Times Chronicle, publishers of several newspapers in Montgomery County, Pa., that state’s third largest county in terms of population located adjacent to and northwest of Philadelphia.

In 1961 Yoder was employed by the Trenton-based auto racing publication Area Auto Racing News as a photographer, where…