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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
2
A long string of local social notes covers Thanksgiving visits, family gatherings, and service members from Des Moines to Pella and Oskaloosa. Families welcome returning relatives and celebrate marriages, moves, and military duty with thanks and health updates.
Local church notices invite worshippers to Christmas sermons and Bible studies across multiple congregations. Churches include First Christian Reform, Second Reformed, Baptist, Gospel Hall, and Third Reformed, listing pastors, service times, classes, and topics such as The Lukewarm Church and The Humiliated Saviour.
Sunday program on the Wolverine Net in Chicago at 1160 dial from 4 to 5 30 PM under Return Witness Hour with Rev. Nl. Hoekse in a lecture on Salvation by Grace and the Gift of Grace. Also sermon topics include The Proper Attitude in Addressing God and filial love with reverence and a Bible study on Acts 2 22.
Sunday school at 9 15 am with morning worship and a 1 00 pm sermon titled What Have You A visitors service at 6 pm and a 0 pm service with a 1944 Model Revival photo Prayer meeting Tuesday at 8 pm Evangelistic service Thursday with epic Fool's Gold Rev A Haverkamp pastor hosts The in of Covetousness Rev R B Drukker Kentucky Mountain Mission guest preacher 7 30 pm Evening praise Beth Jehem The Visit of the Angels
Nellie Kaldenberg born July 14 1876 in Pella Iowa died November 27 1943 at her Sey mour home after 19 years in Wayne County. She married Matthew Kaldenberg October 3 1901 and had five children Emma Marie Henry Matthew Irene Sengle Elmer Ralph and Clarence Vernon. She was active in church work, a member of Second Reformed Church then Methodist, survived by husband five children a step son A E Kaldenberg step daughter Harriet Besemer nine brothers and one sister with other extended family.
Obituary items note the death of Mrs. Kaldenberg after years of illness and the burial in Oakwood cemetery at Pella with services in Sey mour and Co operative Home for Funerals. Also, Albert Wanders son of Lewis Wanders and Cateau Van Engen, born in Wageningen Netherlands, dies at 71 years, with service details and interment in Oak Center cemetery, Pella. Card of thanks expresses gratitude for support and floral tokens.
Maggie Veenstra died at her daughter and son in law Adrian Lubherden’s home on Monday evening Nov 20 born June 27 1864 near Pella Iowa aged 70 years 5 months 2 days married Feb 10 1886 to Jacob Veenstra who died in 1921 survived by seven children and nine grandchildren six great grandchildren She lived in Iowa towns including What Cheer Des Moines Rockford Leighton and Pella with extended family listed.
The funeral for Mrs Veenstra was held Wednesday at 2 pm at the 2nd Reformed church after services at Van Dyk Funeral Home. Rev. Rd. Vanden Berry officiated with interment at Oakland cemetery. Survived by two daughters Mrs Minnie Billhan and Mrs Hiemstra and four sons. The family thanks friends and neighbors for support and sympathy.
Lieutenant Gerrit Wermhoudt returns on leave from Hollywood Florida where he studied at the Navy Air Navigation School. Ninety officers graduate including eleven women WAVES. The class included flyers and scientists with math and physics backgrounds. WAVES will replace male instructors in some training, and graduates are deemed qualified for teaching duties.
A scrambled OCR item lists numerous names and places including Martha Barnes Hirninsville Missouri and Mattabel Downing Midland Texas along with cities like Chicago New Haven and Manchester. The fragment notes Mattabel Downing of Midland Texas wished to duty at the Ottumwa Air Tse per Lt. Wormboudt.
A brief from Lawson General Hospital in Atlanta Georgia mentions Cpl Melvin Olivier. It outlines a sterile practice protocol urging careful cleaning after use to avoid infection, including washing surfaces with soap and water boiling and wrapping in clean cloth.
Poem by W. J. Griffith appears in The Wake Tribune reflecting on living purposefully. The speaker vows to brighten others days and ease a comrade's load, hoping to be remembered as a friend and to have lived without regret.
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