ARENDS, Dirk G. 1891-1980

ARENDS, BURMA, BEVING

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Date: 2/24/2019 at 17:38:16

Dirk (Dick) Arends

Funeral services for Dirk (Dick) George Arends were conducted Saturday morning, March 8 at 10:30 at the East Friesland Presbyterian Church with Rev. David V. Dupee officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were Paul Beving, John Behrends, Harvey Behrends, Wendell Lindaman, Frederick Beving, Leonard Oelmann. The Brandt-Fritz Funeral Home of Ackley was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Arends had been in failing health and passed away Wednesday afternoon, March 5 at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo. He reached the age of 88 years, 7 months and 7 days.

Dirk Arends was born July 27, 1891, south of Ackley on the same farm where his father had been born and where Dirk was to spend much of his adult life. He was the son of George and Grietje Burma Arends.

He was baptized at the East Friesland Church on September 6, 1891, and became a communicant member on August 13, 1913. On December 17, 1913 he was united in marriage to Anna Beving. The Arends farmed in the Ackley area except for an interval of several years at Britt and Conrad. In 1948 they retired and moved into Ackley.

Mr. Arends received his education in the public schools, attended Iowa Business College in Des Moines and went to telegraphy school in Topeka, Kan. He was employed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for several years before he started farming.

He served on the Cleves Creamery Board, Hardin County A.S.C., Hardin County Board of Education, the Hardin-Franklin Farmers Mutual Insurance Association Board and other community organizations.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Wm. (Evelyn) Freeseman of Ackley and Mrs. Ruth Buss of Hampton; two sons, Arnold of Wellsburg and Donald of Ackley; 10 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, 1 great-great-granddaughter and two step-great-grandchildren and one step-great-great-grandson.

He was preceded in death by his wife, his parents, two brothers, one sister and one grandson, Bruce Arends.

--Ackley World-Journal (Ackley, Iowa), 13 March 1980, pg 5