GROOTE, DaNelle 1955-2003

GROOTE, HARBERTS, EIKLENBORG, EBERLINE

Posted By: Jeffrey R. Phillips (email)
Date: 1/22/2005 at 09:09:25

DaNelle Groote
By: 08/27/2003

March 26, 1955-August 24, 2003

WELLSBURG - DaNelle Groote, 48, of Wellsburg died Sunday, Aug. 24, 2003, at the Grundy County Memorial Hospital in Grundy Center. Funeral services will be Wednesday, Aug. 27, at 1:30 p.m. at Wellsburg Reformed Church with Pastor Todd Rempe officiating. Burial will follow at Shiloh Cemetery in Wellsburg.

DaNelle was born March 26, 1955, in Grundy Center to Harold and Isabelle (Harberts) Eiklenborg. She was raised in the Dike area and graduated from Dike High School in 1973. DaNelle attended Hawkeye Tech in Waterloo and later Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls. On April 24, 1973, she was united in marriage to Sheldon Groote at the Stout Reformed Church. The couple lived in various Iowa towns, moving to Wellsburg this past summer. DaNelle worked as a paraprofessional aide at Ida Grove, Montezuma and was just starting at AGWSR school. She was a member of the Sully Reformed Church in Sully where she taught Bible school and assisted with family night activities.

Survivors include her husband, Sheldon; a son, Kyle, at home; three sisters, LuRae Eberline and husband Jerry of Wellsburg, JoLeen Eiklenborg of Waco, Texas, CoLeen Pruisner and husband Darwin of Boulder, Colo.; a brother, Wendell Eiklenborg, of Dike; a sister-in-law, Mary Groote, of Arvada, Colo.; and many nieces and nephews.

Doyen-Abels Funeral Home in Wellsburg is in charge of arrangements.

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