Erma Ver Ploeg
Jan 8, 2021
Erma Jean Ver Ploeg was born August 5, 1933 to Rennier and Sarah (Vander Leest) Dieleman in Killduff, Iowa. She passed away at her home in Sedona, Arizona on January 8, 2021.
Erma was just two years old when her father passed away and her mother died when she was nine. She grew up in the Sully...
Lena Vandenberg
Jan 5, 2021
Lena was born in Prairie City, Iowa, on March 26, 1922, to James and Winnie (Louwsma) Nugteren. She was baptized at Prairie City Christian Reformed Church. She received her education in the Prairie City schools through sophomore year in high school. The family moved to Pella/Knoxville rural area in 1937 and the last two years of high school were...
Chris Branderhorst
Jan 3, 2021
Dorothy Christine "Chris" Branderhorst, the daughter of Gerrit "Bud" and Dorothy (Vande Kieft) Arkema, was born February 26, 1956 in Tracy, Iowa. Chris attended Tracy Elementary School, Twin Cedars School and was a 1974 graduate of Pella High School.
On October 3, 1974, she was united in marriage to Jerry Branderhorst in Pella. To this union they...
Berneda "Bea" Oswalt
Jan 2, 2021
Most of the summer of 1928, her mother Alice (Baarda) Vonk sat in front of a block of ice, placed in a metal wash tub with a fan blowing over it, keeping cool during her pregnancy. No air conditioning in those days, and it was a hot summer. On the very last Day of 1928, December 31st, she gave...
Stanley Hoogeveen
Dec 31, 2020
Stanley Willis Hoogeveen was born August 5, 1925, to Henry and Gertrude (Roelofs) Hoogeveen, in Prinsburg, Minnesota. Stan grew up in the Prinsburg area, attended Calvin College, and received his Masters from Drake University.
On March 14, 1946, he was united in marriage to Clara Van Hove at the Emden Christian Reformed Church of Renville, Minnesota. To...
Margaret Gordin
Dec 27, 2020
Margaret Jane Gordin was born March 20, 1931, to Lewis and Ruth (Hammersley) Crumes in Ottumwa, Iowa. Â She passed away on December 27, 2020, at The Cottages in Pella.
On July 28, 1956, she was united in marriage to Arlin Gordin, in Oskaloosa, Iowa. They had three daughters: Pamela, RoxAnn, and Lori. Margaret was a loving mother...
Abraham Willems
Dec 26, 2020
Abraham "Abe" Willems was born on October 23, 1929 in Grand Rapids, MI to Henry and Theresa (Lugtigheid) Willems, who had immigrated from the Netherlands. Dutch was his first language. He entered the gates of Heaven on December 26, 2020 in Cedar Rapids, IA, succumbing to Alzheimer's disease with complications from covid. The fourth child of five, he was...
Herman Rook
Dec 17, 2020
Herman C. Rook was born on April 20, 1930 to Cornelius (Case) and Ella (Stehr) Rook, near Indianola, Iowa.
At age four, the family moved to a farm in the Sandridge community near Pella. Herman attended country school at Sandridge and later Pella Community High School.
On January 17, 1956 Herman was united in marriage...
Dwain Russell
Dec 10, 2020
Dwain Edwin Russell was born January 11, 1962, to Larry and Betty (Wilton) Russell, in St. Albans City, Vermont. He passed away on December 10, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa.
On May 11, 1985, he was united in marriage to Linda M. Edstrom. To this union they were blessed with two sons: Derek and Dustin.
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Calvin Vande Voort
Dec 2, 2020
Calvin Eugene Vande Voort was born September 13, 1963, to Gerritt and Leona (Memmelaar) Vande Voort, in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Calvin was a 1982 graduate of Pella Christian High School, and farmed his entire life. He enjoyed fishing, four-wheeling, water skiing, snow skiing, and canoeing the Skunk River, Des Moines River and the Boundary Waters. He also enjoyed...
Jeanette Roose
Dec 1, 2020
Jeanette Roose was born October 30, 1937, to Age and Alice (Veenstra) Westra. She grew up near Fifield, Iowa, and attended Centennial and Pella Christian Schools. She also grew up on a farm northwest of Leighton. She lived mostly farm life until her late teens when her family moved to town. She worked at Pella Rolscreen until she quit...
Virginia Frendt
Dec 1, 2020
Virginia "Ginny" May Russ Frendt was born on May 4, 1926, to Paul and Amanda (Mueller) Russ, in Mount Clemens, Michigan. She left this earthly life, moving on to her permanent address, HEAVEN, on December 1, 2020.
She grew up on a farm near Mt. Clemens and Richmond, Michigan, as the youngest child in a family of...
Pauline Branderhorst
Dec 1, 2020
Pauline Gertrude Branderhorst, the daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Van Gilst) Kloosterman, was born January 20, 1932, near Leighton, Iowa. She attended Black Oak Country School and Pella Christian Grade School.
Pauline made profession of faith at an early age at Second Christian Reformed Church and was currently a member of Covenant Reformed Church in Pella.
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Jackson Gililland
Nov 30, 2020
Jackson Lee Gililland was born April 19, 1934, to William F. and Lucille (Porter) Gililland, in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Jack attended Cloudcroft High School in New Mexico. He was in the U.S. Navy for more than three years and then enlisted into the U.S. Army for another three years. Jack did contract work for the telephone company...
Annette Van Wyk
Nov 29, 2020
Annette Van Wyk was born August 21, 1949, to Benjamin and Alice (Ludema) Blauwkamp, in Zeeland, Michigan. Anne attended Beaverdam Christian School, and graduated from Unity Christian High School in Hudsonville, Michigan. She went on to attend Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for one year.
In 1974, she was in Cedar Rapids working with the SWIM...
Marcella Laverman
Nov 26, 2020
Marcella Ann Nikkel was born on November 11, 1935 near Sully Iowa. She was the 9th of ten brothers and sisters. She grew up on the farm and helped bake pies for a big family. She met Lester, her future husband, while attending a small one room schoolhouse. Dad always liked to tell the story of winking at her...
Henry Veldhuizen
Nov 24, 2020
Henry John Veldhuizen, the first of four children born to Jacob H and Marie (Van Zee) Veldhuizen, entered this world on February 5, 1924. The family lived 'in the big square house located on the only four cornered intersection between Lynnville and Taintor' until Henry was ten years old when they purchased a farm one mile south of Taintor. ...
Evelyn Van Heukelom
Nov 22, 2020
Evelyn Gladys Van Heukelom, daughter of Dirk G. and Hattie (Jansen) De Jong, was born near Pella, Iowa, and died of COVID-19 complications at the age of 101. She went to be with the Lord on November 22, 2020.
Evelyn was united in marriage with T. Ernest Van Heukelom on January 29, 1941. To this union three...
Maynard De Vries
Nov 20, 2020
The service will be livestreamed at 11:00 am, Friday, November 27, on the Garden Chapel Facebook page. Friends are family are invited to join the family in procession from the funeral home to Evergreen Cemetery at 11:15. The procession will leave from the north parking lot of the funeral home right after the funeral and friends may join the...
Glenda Noordsy
Nov 19, 2020
Glenda Noordsy, age 79, died on November 19, 2020, at her home in Pella.
A Celebration of Life service will be held at a later date.
