VerPloeg, Alonzo – 1909-2001

DERRINGER, FARO, VANDERWILT, VANWYK, VERPLOEG

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp
Date: 8/27/2016 at 10:23:12

Pella – Alonzo Ver Ploeg, 92, of Pella, died of heart failure Friday, April 6, at the Pella Regional Health Center in Pella.
Funeral services were held today at the First Reformed Church in Pella with the Rev. Kenneth Dykstra and the Rev. Ronald Sikkema officiating. Burial was at Oakwood Cemetery in Pella. Memorials will be accepted to the First Reformed Church. Van Dyk-Duven Funeral Home in Pella handled arrangements.
The son of James Engle and Gertrude (Vander Wilt) Ver Ploeg, he was born Jan. 8, 1909, near Pella. He graduated from Pella High School in 1927 and served in the United States Army during World War II. He married Geraldine Van Wyk on June 18, 1946, in Pella.
Mr. Ver Ploeg served as the Marion County assessor, managed the Sully Cooperative Exchange until 1948 and operated the Sully Café until 1952. He farmed northwest of Killduff until 1954 and then moved northwest of Pella, where he invented the Stump cutter. He was owner and operator of Ver Ploeg Brothers Stump Cutting together with his brother. He was a member of the First Reformed Church in Pella, Rural Electric Cooperative Exchange, VFW, and the American Legion Post No. 89.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Alan of Laramie, Wyo., and Bryan of Ankeny; three daughters, Mary Vander Wilt and Elaine Derringer, both of Pella, and Brenda Faro of Albuquerque, N.M.; 12 grandchildren; two step grandchildren; two great grandchildren; and three step great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a grandson, a step grandson, four brothers and two sisters.
Source: Newton Daily News; 10 April 2001