Van Langen, Minnie Heyer (1881-1962)

VAN LANGEN, HEYER, GROEN, HASSEBROCK, MECHAELSEN, TEMPEL, BOOMGARDEN, ITES, RIPPENTROP

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 7/25/2015 at 12:00:46

Daily Freeman Journal, Wednesday, November 21, 1962

Mrs. Ben Van Langen, 81, a longtime resident of the Kamrar community, died at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Story City Memorial hospital where she had been a patient the past five weeks.

She had been in failing health the past two months.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Presbyterian church east of Kamrar with the Rev. Loren Parman officiating and with burial in the Presbyterian cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the Foster funeral home until 10 o'clock Friday morning when it will be taken to the church.

Minnie Heyer, daughter of Fred and Harmka [Groen] Heyer, was born Feb. 10, 1881 in Germany. When she was 10 years old, she came with her parents to the U. S., locating in Hamilton county on a farm near Kamrar.

She received her education in the Kamrar schools and grew to young womanhood in that community. She was united in marriage March 22, 1899 to Ben Van Langen, and the couple farmed in the Kamrar community until 1916, when they moved into Kamrar, where Mr. Van Langen owned and operated a hardware store. For a number of years they had been retired.

She was preceded in death by her husband on April 12, 1962; by one son, Mervin; her parents; and one brother, William Heyer.

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Guy (Lena) Hassebrock and Mrs. Seafka (Leona) Mechaelsen, both of Kamrar, and Mrs. George (Esther) Hassebrock of Jewell; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; 4 sisters and 2 brothers, Mrs. Anna Tempel, Wilmot, S. D.; Mrs. Hattie Boomgarden, Luverne, Minn., Henry Heyer of Woden, Iowa, and George Heyer, Mrs. Jennie Ites, Mrs. Fred Rippentrop, all of Buffalo Center.

Mrs. Van Langen was a member of the Presbyterian church at Kamrar and was a charter member of the Ladies Missionary Society of the church.