Elizabeth Vander Weerdt
Dec 18, 2011
Elizabeth (Nikkel)Vander Weerdt passed peacefully to her Heavenly Home on Sunday evening, December 18, 2011, at the Pella Regional Health Center after being transported that afternoon from Fair Haven East in Pella.
Elizabeth was born April 28, 1921, on a farm near Sully, Iowa, to the late Marcellas and Annie (Baarda) Nikkel. She had nine siblings. She...
Francis "Bop" Van Dusseldorp
Dec 15, 2011
Francis Marion "Bop" Van Dusseldorp was born on May 5, 1921 to Lambartus and Marie Huyser Van Dusseldorp on the family farm near Otley, Iowa. He went to his heavenly home on Thursday, December 15, 2011 at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House at the age of ninety.
Bop received his early education at the Summit Township...
Arie J. Lanser
Dec 14, 2011
Arie John Lanser was born on January 13, 1912 to John and Elizabeth (Bruxvoort) Lanser. He went to his heavenly home on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at the age of ninety-nine.
Arie grew up on the family farm and attended Sully Christian Grade School where he completed the eighth grade.
On January 22, 1939 he...
Jeannetta De Jong
Dec 12, 2011
Jeannetta De Jong was born on July 2, 1923 to John L. and Carrie Vander Molen Veenstra near Peoria, Iowa. She passed away Monday, December 12, 2011 at the age of eighty-eight at the Oskaloosa Care Center.
Jeannetta received her early education at the Peoria Christian Grade School where she completed the eighth grade. Until the time...
Marilyn Amber
Nov 23, 2011
Marilyn Joyce (Fleener) Amber was born on January 18, 1934, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, to John and Opal (Keeran) Fleener. Marilyn passed away at the Pella Regional Health Center on Wednesday, November 23, 2011, at the age of seventy-seven.
Marilyn was educated in the Oskaloosa Community School District. On May 31, 1952, she was united in marriage to...
Matthew Olivier
Nov 23, 2011
Matthew Wm Olivier was born on April 21, 1919, to Jacob and Lena Blommers Olivier in the Oskaloosa/Eddyville area. He received his education from the Madison Center County School. He passed away Wednesday, November 23, 2011, at the Pella Regional Health Center-Long Term Care at the age of ninety-two.
On June 3, 1941, Matt was united in...
Clarence J. Meyers
Nov 11, 2011
Clarence Jay Meyers, son of Chester and Mary DeGraff Meyers, was born on August 20, 1923, near Prairie City, Iowa. He passed away Friday, November 11, 2011, at Jefferson Place in Pella, Iowa.
He received his early education in the Prairie City area and graduated from Monroe High School.
On February 4, 1949, Clarence was...
Rev. David Laman
Nov 6, 2011
David A. Laman (97) passed away and went to be with the Lord on November 6, 2011. He was born in Baldwin, Wisconsin on October 10, 1914. He graduated from Hope College and Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He married Lois Lohuis and together they served churches in Grant, Michigan, Muskegon, Michigan, Maurice, Iowa, Oskaloosa, Iowa, Artesia, California,...
Murray Kamerick
Nov 2, 2011
Murray Kamerick, son of John and Muriel Sytsma Kamerick, was born April 2, 1925, in Pella, Iowa. He passed away Wednesday, November 2, 2011, at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House at the age of eighty-six.
Murray received his early education at a country school near his home.
On October 11, 1944, Murray was united...
Gilbert J. Schut
Oct 27, 2011
Gilbert James Schut, son of Gerrit and Cornelia (Bos) Schut, was born on September 30, 1921, on the family farm near Monroe, Iowa. He was raised in the Monroe area and educated in the Capital Prairie School.
On January 29, 1948, Gilbert was united in marriage to Johana De Koning at her family farm near Monroe. To...
Karen Uitermarkt
Oct 12, 2011
Karen Joyce Uitermarkt was born on August 27, 1944, in Ottumwa, Iowa to Alfonse "Doc" and Delores (Terrell) Johnson. Karen passed away at her home in Pella on Wednesday, October 12, 2011, at the age of sixty-seven.
Karen graduated from the Ottumwa High School with the class of 1962. She received her B.A. of Theology, with a...
Glenn De Kock
Oct 9, 2011
Glenn De Kock was born on September 11, 1928, to Jasper "Jap" and Minnie (Bogaards) De Kock. He was raised on the family farm in the Sandridge area north of Pella. Glenn graduated from the Pella High School with the class of 1946.
Glenn was a carpenter for most of his life, working mainly in the Pella...
Donald L. Tuinstra
Oct 8, 2011
Donald Lee Tuinstra, son of Matthew and Jeanette Vande Kieft Tuinstra, was born on April 9, 1924, on the family farm near Leighton, Iowa. He was raised and educated in Pella and Marshalltown, Iowa. Don enlisted in the U.S. Navy on July 23, 1942. After deployments to the Atlantic, Caribbean, Mediterranean, and the Middle East, he was honorably discharged...
Johanna M. Manges
Sep 23, 2011
Near the Des Moines River in Marion County, Iowa, is a small town known as Harvey, where on May 1, 1920, Johanna Mae Visser was born to Henry and Maggie (Vander Veer) Visser. Not long before Johanna's youngest brother Laverne was born, her family moved to a farm on the Pella side of the Des Moines River. She grew...
Ronald J. Vos
Sep 18, 2011
Ronald James Vos was born on August 2, 1940 to James and Wilma Jansen Vos in Jasper County. He passed away Sunday, September 18, 2011 at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House at the age of seventy-one.
On June 26, 1959 Ron was united in marriage with Lucille Joan Vande Voort near Killduff, Iowa. To this union...
Cornelia Tibboel
Sep 9, 2011
Cornelia Tibboel was born on January 13, 1923, to Peter and Adrajana Kleinendorst Verschuure at their farm home near Tracy, Iowa.
She attended elementary schools in the Tracy, Otley Prairie City, and Pella area and graduated from Pella High School in 1941. She taught one year in a rural school northeast of Pella, then worked at the...
Charly Beyer
Sep 1, 2011
Charly Beyer, son of Gerrit and Gertie (Slycord) Beyer, was born November 20, 1923, in Taintor, Iowa. He passed away at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House on Thursday, September 1, 2011, at the age of eighty-seven.
On May 29, 1950, Charly was united in marriage with Elotia Myers at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa....
Beverly A. Toom-Turner
Aug 26, 2011
Beverly Ann De Moss Toom-Turner was born July 5, 1940, to Lee and Mildred Schrader De Moss, in Knoxville, Iowa. She passed away on Friday, August 26, 2011, at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House at the age of seventy-one.
Beverly grew up in the Knoxville area, received her early education in the Knoxville Schools, and graduated...
Bonnie J. Vande Kraats
Aug 14, 2011
Bonnie June Vande Kraats, daughter of John Arie and Betty Lou Van Sant Vande Kraats, was born September 15, 1959 on the family farm two miles north of Pella, Iowa, in Marion County. She lived her whole life on the family farm. She attained the age of fifty-one, passing away on Sunday, August 14, 2011.
Bonnie attended...
Robert L. Van Ryswyk
Aug 9, 2011
Robert L. Van Ryswyk, son of Arie and Irene (Vande Lune) Van Ryswyk, passed away Tuesday, August 9, 2011, at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House at the age of eighty-four. He was born September 3, 1926, on the family farm south of Prairie City. He received his early education in the Prairie City area, graduated from Prairie City...
