Michael L. Atkins
Mar 23, 2010
Michael Lynn Atkins, son of Dana and Irene Baresel Atkins, was born March 16, 1950 in Manhattan, Kansas. In 1965, the Atkins' family, including Mike's two younger sisters, Jan and Jill, moved to Oskaloosa.
Mike graduated from Oskaloosa High School, received his B.A. in education at William Penn College and his M.A. at Northeast Missouri State University....
Mark David Stevenson
Mar 10, 2010
Mark David Stevenson was born January 4, 1986 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. At the age of one, he and his family moved to Richfield Springs, New York. While living there, Mark was diagnosed at the age of three with Hunter Syndrome, a very rare degenerative disorder that he had since birth. During this time Mark began early childhood intervention...
Art Sneller
Mar 7, 2010
Art Sneller was born near Monroe, Iowa, on April 5, 1930. He weighed only two pounds, small enough to fit in a shoe box. He was the youngest of six children, four brothers and one sister. He attended school in Colfax where he completed the eighth grade. After he finished school he went to work for his brother, Henry,...
Susan M. Glessner
Mar 5, 2010
Susan Marie Glessner was born on December 28, 1959, in Davenport, Iowa, to John W. and Janet M. Anderson Glessner, Sr. She passed away on Friday, March 5, 2010, at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House at the age of fifty.
Prior to her moving to Pella in 1996, she received her early education at River Hills...
Larry Mulder
Feb 28, 2010
Larry Allan Mulder was born on May 16, 1954, to Marvin and Loretta (Kleinhuizen) Mulder in Denver, Colorado. He passed away at his home in Pella on Sunday, February 28, 2010, at the age of fifty-five.
Larry graduated from Renville Community High School in Renville, Minnesota. He received his college degree in Physical Education from South Dakota...
Betty Nikkel
Feb 16, 2010
Betty Marie Nikkel, daughter of John and Katie Fopma Laverman, was born March 23, 1925, at the family home north of Sully, Iowa. She passed away on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, at the Northern Mahaska Nursing and Rehab Center in Oskaloosa, Iowa, at the age of eighty-four.
On January 11, 1945, Betty was united in marriage with...
Raymond Van Wyk
Feb 15, 2010
Raymond H. Van Wyk, son of Gerrit J. and Cornelia Roorda Van Wyk, was born February 20, 1921, near Eddyville, Iowa. He passed away at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House on Monday, February 15, 2010, five days short of his eighty-ninth birthday.
He attended the Otley School and completed the eighth grade.
On January...
Roland H. Eysink
Jan 31, 2010
Roland Harris Eysink was born June 19, 1932, on the family farm in the Sandridge neighborhood to Gerrit and Rosetta Huyser Eysink. He passed away at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at the age of seventy-seven.
He received his early education at the Sandridge Country School and later graduated from Pella...
Luther H. Caster, Jr
Jan 29, 2010
Luther Harmon Caster, Jr., age 81, passed away on Friday, January 29, 2010, at the Skiff Medical Center-Monarch Unit. Luther was born on August 15, 1928, to Luther and Mary Ethel Hellyer Caster near Chugwater, Wyoming in Laramie County. He moved to Moravia, Iowa with his parents in 1940, and graduated from the Moravia High School with the class...
Janet Van Waardhuizen
Jan 24, 2010
Janet Menninga Van Waardhuizen, age 90, passed away January 24, 2010, at the Knoxville Hospital. Janet was born on June 20, 1919, to John S. and Margaret Den Burger Menninga in rural Marion County, Iowa, near the Bethel neighborhood. She attended the Battle Ridge country school through the eighth grade.
Janet was united in marriage with Arie...
Abraham De Zwarte
Jan 12, 2010
Abraham (Abe) De Zwarte was born March 25, 1913, to Marinus and Jennie Goemaat De Zwarte south of Pella. He received his early education at the Pella Christian Grade School.
On May 9, 1934, Abraham was united in marriage with Jacoba Van Oenen at the First Christian Reformed Church parsonage in Pella. To this union four children...
Marjorie Sneller
Jan 7, 2010
Marjorie Sneller was born on September 27, 1928, to Gerrit A. and Katherine Vander Wiel Klyn near Otley, Iowa. She was the sixth child in her family of thirteen. She received her early education at the Fifield Country School, graduating from the eighth grade. She was employed at the Oskaloosa Overall Factory, but when her mother died she quit...
Junella Fern Vander Linden
Jan 5, 2010
Junella Fern Vander Linden, 87, passed away January 5, 2010, at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City. Junella was born on August 7, 1922, to David and Sophia (Walraven) Grandia on a farm near Leighton, Iowa. She attended school and took normal training in Oskaloosa, after which she began teaching in rural country schools.
Junella...
Clarence William Van Steenis
Jan 3, 2010
Clarence William Van Steenis was born on June 13, 1916, at rural Knoxville near Flagler. He was the only child of Huber and Minnie Slot Van Steenis.
He received his eighth grade education by the age of eleven at the Flagler Country School. He then began his lifetime occupation as a farmer.
On October 20,...
Harry Van Waardhuizen
Jan 2, 2010
Harry Van Waardhuizen was born on May 19, 1917, to William and Anna Henrietta (Vande Kieft) Van Waardhuizen near Otley, Iowa. He received his early education at the Liberty Corner Country School near Otley, Iowa.
On September 4, 1941, he was united in marriage with Cleora Carpenter at the home of her parents near Reasnor, Iowa. To...
Gerrit J. Sneller
Dec 30, 2009
Gerrit J. Sneller was born near Otley, Iowa, on September 20, 1914, to Jacob and Gertrude Brouwer Sneller. He was raised in the Otley area where he attended country school and farmed with his father. Gerrit's mother passed away when he was five years old. His father later married Annie Hulleman.
On March 11, 1938, Gerrit was...
Marion Wichhart
Dec 12, 2009
Marion Wichhart, son of Willem and Nellie Vos Wichhart, was born on January 31, 1915, just southeast of Pella, Iowa. He was the eighth of ten children. His first job was working as a mechanic at the Diamond Creek Coal Mine.
On September 11, 1940, he was united in marriage with Catherine Wanders, daughter of John and...
Marion Heemstra
Dec 11, 2009
Marion Ray Heemstra was born May 27, 1920, to Neal and Edith Baker Heemstra at the family home in Marion County, Iowa. He passed away at the Mercy Medical Center the morning of December 11, 2009, at the age of eighty-nine.
Marion attended country school through the eighth grade. He was united in marriage with Mary E....
Lorna Schakel
Dec 3, 2009
Lorna Schakel was born on February 18, 1920, to Clyde and Mella Rankin Milner in Knoxville, Iowa. She died on Thursday, December 3, 2009, at the Griffin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Knoxville at the age of eighty-nine.
Lorna received her early education in the Knoxville school system and graduated from Knoxville High School with the class...
Sharon Sweitzer
Nov 30, 2009
Sharon Ann Shafranek Sweitzer was born on May 17, 1957, to Wilbur Lee and Erma Jean (Cooper) Moore at Oskaloosa, Iowa. She died on Monday, November 30, 2009, at the Pella Hospice Comfort House at the age of fifty-two.
Sharon received her early education at the Oskaloosa schools and graduated from Oskaloosa High School with the class...
