Velda Arlene Seevers, 05 Mar 1927 – 19 Sep 2011

SEEVERS, VAN ORSDALL, PARRISH, BIRD, MEYER, NORTHUP, PECK, STEEN HELFERTY, VANDEMENT

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 9/30/2011 at 16:08:09

Funeral services for Velda A. Seevers, 84, Sigourney, were held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Holm Funeral Home, Sigourney. She found eternal peace with her Lord Sept. 19, 2011. Her passing was witnessed by God at the Manor House, Sigourney.

Burial was in Rock Creek Cemetery, near Ollie.

Memorials may be made for Belva Deer Park.

Condolences may be sent to Ed Seevers, 1116 NE 85th Ct., Kansas City, Mo. 64155.

Velda Arlene Seevers was born March 5, 1927, in Waseca, Minn., the daughter of Frank and Bernice Parrish Van Orsdall. She attended school at Waldon, Sigourney and Ollie, graduating from North Hollywood High School near Los Angeles, Calif.

After moving back to the Ollie area, she married Jimmy LeRoy Seevers, the love of her life, at the Little Brown Church Nov. 16. 1946. The couple built their lives together on Tick Ridge farmland west of Ollie. She was active in the I’ll Be Seeing You Club, the United Methodist Women, cancer drives, hospice and the historical society.

The couple spent winters in Texas. They also enjoyed touring on their motorcycle throughout the Midwest, Texas and riding to Alaska. They flew to Japan to spend a month with a Japanese family.

Her favorite pastimes were singing, dancing, crocheting and spending time with family and friends. Her strong relationship with God was witnessed through membership in the United Methodist Church.

Seevers is survived by her children and their spouses, Diane and Leonard Bird, Marengo, and Eddy and Jill Seevers, Kansas City, Mo.; two grandchildren, Trisha Meyer and husband Aaron, Smithville, Mo., and Derek Seevers, Kansas City, Mo.; two great-grandchildren, Adin and Benjamin, and two sisters and their husbands, Wilma and Billy Northup, Ollie, and Janet and Eugene Peck, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; three sisters, Lena Steen, Lillian Helferty and Grace Vandement, and two brothers, Glen and Ralph Van Orsdall.

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, 29 Sept 2011, pg 9, Holm Funeral Home, The Gazette, 22 Sep 2011, pg 9A