Sheryl Ellinwood
Feb 26, 2015
Sheryl Ellinwood, age 55, passed away Thursday, February 26, 2015, at the Knoxville Hospital. Memorial services will be held at a later date.
Leona B. Van Wyk
Feb 24, 2015
Leona Belle Van Wyk was born on August 25, 1928, to Gysbert and Jacoba Stursma Swank in Mahaska County. She went to her heavenly home on Tuesday evening, February 24, 2015, at the Oskaloosa Serenity House at the age of eighty-six. On March 8, 1949, Leona was united in marriage with Lester J. Van Wyk in Peoria, Iowa. They...
Doyle “Joe” Van Essen
Feb 8, 2015
Doyle "Joe" Van Essen was born on the family farm near Prairie City, Iowa, on May 7, 1924, to Aart and Hazel Marie (Nolin) Van Essen. He graduated from the Monroe High School and started working the farm where he lived all of his life. On March 21, 1948, Doyle was united in marriage with Beverly Wilson at the...
Geurt Van Sant
Feb 5, 2015
Geurt John Van Sant was born on a farm near Leighton, Iowa, on July 14, 1925, to Andrew and Gertie (Van Hall) Van Sant. He received his education in area schools and graduated from the Sully High School in 1943. Geurt served with honor in the U.S. Navy during World War II, stationed aboard the U.S.S. Belleauwood. Following his...
Cornie Vander Linden
Jan 21, 2015
Cornie Vander Linden, son of Carl and Nelly Dam Vander Linden, was born in rural Oskaloosa, Iowa, on June 16, 1919. He attended Black Oak Center School in rural Leighton, Iowa, until 1931 and graduated from the Peoria Christian School in 1932. On May 28, 1952, he was united in marriage with Tracy Huyser in Chicago, Illinois. Tracy died...
Cornelia Verschuure
Jan 18, 2015
Cornelia Jacoba Tibboel was born May 21, 1917, to Martin and Maggie Tibboel at Cordova, Iowa. She went to her heavenly home on Sunday, January 18, 2015, at the age of ninety-seven. Cornelia was united in marriage with Tunis Verschuure on February 23, 1939, at her parents' home near Monroe, Iowa. They were blessed with five children: David, Eunice,...
Melvin Pothoven
Jan 8, 2015
Melvin Pothoven was born on April 4, 1926 in Oskaloosa, IA. He was the youngest of three children born to Andrew Tunis and Nellie (Van Houweling) Pothoven. He attended Wheat Grow Grade School and following this he graduated from Pella High School with the class of 1944. He chose not to attend college, and worked for several area farmers...
Ida Marie Kinnick
Jan 6, 2015
Ida Marie Kinnick, age 96, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. She was born in Coon Rapids, Iowa, to Warren Raymond and Zula Agnes (Patrick) Bell, and was next to youngest of their six children: Opal, Irl, Lucille, Dorothy, Ida Marie and June. Soon after graduating from high school, she married the love of her life, Leo...
Eva Anderson
Jan 2, 2015
Eva Agnetta Surls was born to Fred and Olga Surls in Iowa Falls, Iowa on April 11, 1916. She was the oldest of five children. She passed away on Friday, January 2, 2015 after a short illness. Eva accepted Jesus as her Savior at the age of 13 and a few years later, felt a definite call of God...
Roberta Klein
Dec 27, 2014
Roberta Irene (Fisher) Klein was born on September 29, 1929, to Marvin E. and Charlotte L. (McKinney) Fisher in Des Moines, Iowa. She passed away Saturday morning, December 27, 2014, at the age of eighty-five.
Roberta received her early education in Des Moines schools, attended Pella High School, and North High School in Des Moines where she...
Frank Hettinga
Dec 19, 2014
Frank Hettinga, the son of Jochem and Willemien Smidt Hettinga, was born on August 24, 1927, in the Netherlands. At the age of twenty-one, Frank immigrated to the United States. He received his education in the Netherlands.
On Decembeer 4, 1949, Frank was united in marriage with Anna Vink in Pella, Iowa. They were blessed with four...
Donald K. De Reus
Dec 18, 2014
Donald Keith De Reus passed away at his rural home southwest of Monroe on Thursday, December 18, 2014, at the age of seventy-five. He was the youngest of three children born to Gysbert and Agnes (Henderson) De Reus near Prairie City, Iowa, on January 23, 1939.
Don attended Maple Grove 10 Country School near Prairie City until...
Clarence (Brooks) Garden
Dec 12, 2014
Brooks, as most people knew him, was born October 12, 1924, on a farm outside of Tracy, Iowa. He was the twin to Ralph born to Ralph and Ellen (Thomas) Garden. Brooks attended the Tracy Elementary School and was admitted to the Tracy High School on May 19, 1938. He entered the Army on March 19, 1943, and served...
Edith Kuiper
Dec 10, 2014
Edith Kuiper was born on January 23, 1914, to Arie J. and Josie Beyer De Vries near Otley, Iowa. She went to her heavenly home Wednesday, December 10, 2014, at the Oskaloosa Care Center at the age of 100. She received her early education at a country school near her home and completed the eighth grade.
On...
Arie Ver Dught
Dec 2, 2014
Arie Warner Ver Dught, age 92, was born on May 31, 1922, to Cornelius and Hattie Bogaards Ver Dught in the Sandridge neighborhood northeast of Pella. He had one older sister. He attended the Sandridge and Flintridge country schools.
A major event in Arie's life was undergoing brain tumor surgery at the Iowa City Hospital in 1936...
Erma M. De Haan
Nov 27, 2014
Erma May Roorda was born on April 27, 1925 and raised on the family farm northwest of Pella. She was the fifth child of Wigert and Reino (Borgman) Roorda. Erma attended Pella public schools and graduated from Pella Community High School in 1944. After high school she worked at the Co-op grocery store. Erma met Adrian Paul De Haan...
Jane Langerak Meier
Nov 25, 2014
Jane Anne Langerak Meier was born November 18, 1940 in Des Moines, Iowa and passed away on November 25, 2014 in Prescott, Arizona at the age of 74. She worked as an elementary school teacher and Title 1 reading instructor in Monticello and Big Lake, Minnesota until her retirement in 1998.
She met her husband, John, in...
Jeanetta Olsthoorn
Nov 18, 2014
Jeanetta Beyer Olsthoorn was born on May 9, 1920, to John and Trinnie Eeling Beyer near Sully, Iowa. She went to her eternal home on Tuesday, November 18, 2014, at the age of ninety-four.
Jeanetta attended Taylor School near Sully. Her first job was at the Maasdam Sorghum Mill cooking for the men that worked there. Then...
Ed Jansen
Nov 13, 2014
Edwin Eugene Jansen was born on January 10, 1947, to Jake and Adriana Vos Jansen. He went to his heavenly home on Thursday, November 13, 2014, at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House at the age of sixty-seven.
Ed grew up in the Sully area, attended Sully Christian Schools and then Pella Christian Schools. After his schooling,...
Howard H. De Prenger
Nov 8, 2014
We lost our husband, best friend, dad, grandpa, and great-grandpa this week. He was a quiet, kind, and gentle man. He had a wealth of respect for others and a steadfast faith expressed not so much by words but by actions. He had an abundance of personal strength, accepting what was handed him until the very end.
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