Rachel Ryken
Oct 15, 2009
Rachel Ryken was born February 14, 1908, to Gerrit and Nellie De Jong Ryken at the family home in the Lower Grove neighborhood near Peoria, Iowa. Rachel was the eleventh of fourteen children born into the family. She passed away at the Pella Regional Health Center on Thursday, October 15, 2009, at the age of 101.
Rachel...
Mildred L. Ratcliff
Oct 13, 2009
Mildred Lois Ludwick Ratcliff, daughter of Ray and Jennie Monsma Ludwick, was born April 15, 1924, at her parent's farm home near Taintor, Iowa. She passed away at Harbor Crest Home in Fulton, Illinois, on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at the age of eighty-five.
Mildred grew up in the Lynnville/Sully area where she received her education, graduating...
Elvin E. Van Wyk
Sep 10, 2009
Elvin Edwin Van Wyk, son of Will D. and Nellie Bruxvoort Van Wyk, was born August 17, 1930 near Sully, Iowa. He passed away at his shop north of Pella on Thursday evening, September 10, 2009, at the age of seventy-nine.
Elvin attended the Brown School near Sully and graduated with his eighth grade class.
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Bonnie J. Kerr
Sep 7, 2009
Bonnie Kerr, the daughter of Ward Dillon and Charlotte (McNulty) Dillon was born in Polk county Iowa August 10, 1923. She passed away September 7, 2009 at Ebenezer Ridges Care Center in Burnsville, Minnesota, at the age of 86.
Bonnie married former husband, George Kerr, in 1943. They returned to Iowa following the war, and then moved...
Anna Olsthoorn
Sep 6, 2009
Anna Terpstra Montgomery Olsthoorn, daughter of William and Nellie Terpstra, was born December 30, 1913, near Lynnville, Iowa. She passed away on Sunday, September 6, 2009, at St. Francis Manor in Grinnell, Iowa, at the age of ninety-five.
As a child Anna attended the Lynnville School and graduated from the eighth grade.
On December 2,...
Mathilde Schultz
Sep 3, 2009
Mathilde Viola Brand Schultz was born on April 30, 1919, two miles north of Killduff, Iowa. She was the youngest of five children that were born to Charles and Marie (Nelemans) Brand. She passed away at the Pella Regional Health Center-Long Term Care Center on Thursday evening, September 3, 2009, at the age of ninety.
Mathilde started...
David A. Van Haaften
Aug 26, 2009
David Anthony Van Haaften, son of David and Ruth Bovee Van Haaften, was born on February 21, 1945, in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He passed away at his home on the morning of Tuesday, August 26, 2009, at the age of sixty-four.
David attended Oskaloosa High School, graduating with the class of 1963.
On September 7, 1974,...
Henry A. Bennink
Aug 24, 2009
Henry Arie Bennink, son of John H. and Carrie Bogaards Bennink, was born June 26, 1916 at the family home near Taintor, Iowa. He passed away Monday, August 24, 2009, at the Oskaloosa Care Center at the age of ninety-three.
Henry attended the Peoria Christian School where he graduated from the eighth grade.
On January...
Joyce G. Van Gorp
Aug 22, 2009
Joyce G. Vos Van Gorp, daughter of Peter H. and Hattie Van Veen Vos passed away on Saturday morning, August 22, 2009 at the Comfort House of Pella.
Joyce grew up on a farm near Otley, Iowa, and attended country school and the Pella Community High School.
On August 12, 1947, Joyce and Donald J....
Marcia D. Cade
Aug 11, 2009
Marcia Delores Cade, daughter of William H. and Irene Van Wyk Klein, was born January 4, 1931, in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She passed away at the Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines on Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at the age of seventy-eight.
Marcia received her education in the Pella schools and graduated from Pella High School.
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Elery Park (E.P.) Willey Jr
Aug 3, 2009
Elery Park Willey Jr., son of Elery Park and Anita Randolf Willey, was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on March 7, 1927. He lived most of his life on the family farm near Chelsea and Belle Plaine, Iowa. He graduated from Belle Plaine High School, where he had many good times with Chuck McLennan and Louis Winslow.
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Shaeleigh Lynn Boot
Jul 25, 2009
Shaeleigh Lynn Boot, daughter of Darren and Sonya (Beyer) Boot, was stillborn on Saturday, July 25, 2009 at the Pella Regional Health Center.
Surviving Shaeleigh are her parents, Darren and Sonya Boot of Pella, Iowa; her brother, Deacon; maternal grandparents, Vance and Dee Beyer of Otley, Iowa; paternal grandparents, David and Debora Boot of Pella; maternal great-grandparents,...
Jean A. Ver Heul
Jul 2, 2009
Jean Alvin Ver Heul, son of Dick and Jeanette (Synhorst) Ver Heul, was born March 22, 1927, in Pella, Iowa, the oldest of six children. He passed away on the morning of Thursday, July 2, 2009, at his home in Pella at the age of eighty-two.
Jean received his education in the Pella Schools, graduating from Pella...
Evelyn Crum
Jun 25, 2009
Evelyn Crum, the only child of Adrian Jim and Gertrude Vroom Crum, was born November 21, 1911, on the family farm located south of Monroe. She passed away at the Pella Regional Hospital on Thursday, June 25, 2009, at the age of ninety-seven.
She attended Monroe High School through the tenth grade and then transferred to Pella...
William Vos Iii
Jun 19, 2009
William Vos III, son of William Jr. and Cornelia (Nellie) Arkema Vos, was born September 27, 1915, at his home in Sully, Iowa. William passed away Friday evening, June 19, 2009, at the Pella Hospice Comfort House at the age of ninety-three.
William received his education at the Sully Christian School, graduating from eighth grade.
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Cornelia Veenstra
Jun 12, 2009
Cornelia Helena De Jong Veenstra, daughter of Martin P. and Marie Van Wyngarden De Jong, was born near Leighton, Iowa, on June 14, 1918. She received her early childhood education at a country school near her home.
On December 5, 1940, she was united in marriage with Lambert Veenstra. To this union seven children were born: John,...
Wilbur Van Zante
Jun 12, 2009
Wilbur Roy Van Zante, son of Arie and Martha Boomsma Van Zante, was born at Richland Township, Jasper County, Iowa on September 8, 1918. He graduated from the eighth grade at the Highland Country School.
On December 9, 1943, he was united in marriage with Harriet De Vries at her home. To this union, four children were...
Harold Mathes
May 30, 2009
Harold Mathes, the son of John and Jennie (Vos) Mathes, was born March 6, 1925 on the family farm north of Pella. He was one of ten children. Harold passed away at the farm at the age of eighty-four.
On February 12, 1948 Harold was united in marriage with Pauline Rozendaal at the Third Reformed Church in...
Carol Van Dusseldorp
May 10, 2009
Carol Juanita Van Dusseldorp was born on April 14, 1921 to Henry and Dora (Van Vark) Carson. She grew up in Pella, Iowa, where she lived most of her life. She received her education in the Pella Public Schools and graduated from Pella High School.
She was employed at the Pella Rolscreen Company, now Pella Corporation, during...
Betty Van Weelden
Apr 15, 2009
Betty Jean Van Weelden was born December 2, 1928 in Pella, Iowa to Herman and Katherine Rus Notting. She attended Webster Grade School and Pella High School, graduating in 1946. She spent her younger days with her aunt and uncle, Leona and William C. Stursma and their family, as both of her parents worked.
Betty married Henry...
