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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
4
Obituary notices report the death of Mrs. Syrus Keuning at age 48 in Fifield Iowa on May 30 with funeral services at the Third Reformed Church and Oakwood Cemetery. Also noted is the death of Gerrit Ver Steegt at 82 near Ignnville with details of his marriage to Mary Ver Dught, children, siblings, and a late confession of faith before death.
Peter Van Genderen, born in Marion County Iowa in 1857, died at the home of his daughter. The obituary notes his long residence in the county and his family ties. Funeral arrangements and further details are to be announced.
Ernest Henry Grundman died at 11 30 p.m. Tuesday at the home of his daughter Mrs George Ver Steeg in Petal. He had been seriously ill about five days and suffered a long kidney ailment. He was born September 15 1860 in Pella and lived in Minneapolis before moving to a farm near Sauk Centre Minnesota after the Washburn Crosby mill explosion killed his father.
Miss Adelphine Bakker, class of 1940 at Central, travels to Rock Hill Falls Pennsylvania for the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America to receive a medical missionary commission for Bahrain Arabia. She will then attend a mission training school in Swarthmore Pennsylvania and visit Brighton Heights Reformed Church in Staten Island New York, which supports her Arabia work.
Henry Grundman, who married Emily Elizabeth Shepard on November 15 1886, lived in Pella and worked buying live stock for many years. He spent time at the Grundman farm north of Pella and only lived with his children after his wife’s death on February 2 1934. He declined after her passing and recently returned from Sioux City. Funeral services are set for Friday June 7 at 2:00 PM at Wormhoudt Funeral Home with viewing from 10:00 AM to noon. interment at Oakwood Cemetery. Reverend Paul Christensen to officiate. He is survived by children and grandchildren including Ralph S Grundman of Pella and others in Minnesota Illinois South Dakota and California. Two brothers Hugo Grundman of St Cloud Minnesota and Gene Grundman of Gun Forks North Dakota also survive plus several sisters. Preceded in death by brothers Ernest John George and sisters Gertrude Alden and Elizabeth Shepard.
H J Veldhuizen born in Netherlands January 14 came to America at age five near Pella. He married Gertie Bos who predeceased him on January 24. Survived by children Ella Meppelink Leighton Della Vande Krol Sully Jacob Minnie Meppelink William 16 grandchildren one great grandchild three brothers and one sister. He lived with family near Sully and died Sunday June 2 at 7 00 pm aged 77 years 4 months 18 days after a lifelong religious profession.
He lived in faith serving 50 years as an elder and loved the church. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Van Dusseldorp home and at the First Christian Reformed Church led by Rev John Vander Ploeg. Interment was in Onwood Cemetery.
Albert Hoksbergen of Pella died unexpectedly last Saturday evening near the Marion County State Bank after a brief conversation. He was 70 years old, married twice, and survived by his second wife Jonnie Van Niewans and fourteen children, with several grandchildren. Funeral services were held at his Broadway home on Tuesday at 1:00 pm.
At 1 30 Rev Koning of Tracy presided over the service and interment followed in Oakwood cemetery reflecting a formal religious observance.
Early American Old Spice toiletries offered for Father’s Day at Car penter Drug Store. For sale include Chester White male hog and a work team. Items like ice boxes priced from $1.00 up and a Frigidaire electric range at $69.60. Father dies in Danbury as Rev Gerald Skahill celebrates first Mass at St Patrick’s Church. father William J. Skahill, 63, dies.
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