James Calvin Hostetler, 71, of 1924 E. Croxton, an industrial arts teacher and athletic coach at Bloomington High School for 38 years, died at 8 p.m., Sunday at his home.

 

He had been under the care of a physician.

 

His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Metzler Memorial Home, Bloomington.

 

Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

 

Mr. Hostetler was born Oct. 18, 1904, in Lovington, a son of Arthur L. and Mabel Wood Hostetler. He married Marjorie E. MacKay Oct. 17, 1942, in Gary, Ind.

 

Surviving are his wife; two sons, Peter, Jackson, Tenn., and John, Kenner, La.; and three grandchildren.

 

He was preceded in death by four sisters.

 

Mr. Hostetler taught at Bloomington High School from 1932 until his retirement in 1970. He also coached freshman football and the track team. He was the first teacher in the diversified occupations program in Bloomington-Normal.

 

He also taught at the University of Chicago High School and at Jerseyville High School, as well as instructing pilots in a civilian program before World War II.

 

In World War II, he served in the Navy.

 

He was a member of the Bloomington Masonic Lodge AGF&AM, the Bloomington Consistory and the Lovington Christian Church.