How to deactivate a mail account on iPhone 6?

I want to deactivate a couple of email accounts on my iPhone 6 but I don't want to delete the settings.  I struggled long and hard to get those settings set up and I don't want to lose them in case I need to reactivate those particular  accounts.  I know that on the iMac, it's easy enough to deactivate a mail account but I don't see a way to do it in IOS 8.

Thanks for this, Pedro.  But it's not quite that simple.  If you follow the instructions you sent, you'll not find an on/off toggle.  I finally got this issue resolved on a second call to Applecare.  On the first call, the rep said there is no way to do it.  When I called again and spoke to a different rep, she had an excellent solution.  You still go to Settings --> Mail, Contacts, Calendars.  There you will see an item that says Fetch New Data.  I think it is set to "Push" by default. Press that Fetch New Data button and it will show you each of your accounts and there will be a Push button next to each.  If you press that button, you can change from to "manual."  In effect that turns off that account from automatically grabbing your mail for that account, unless you manually retrieve it.
That gives me the functionality I was looking for.  I want to put all my accounts on "Manual" and then add a gmail account which also pulls from each of those others.  The reason I want it all to go through gmail is that they have good automatic spam filtering!

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