Vriezelaar, Gradus – 1888-1985

BRANNON, BREED, DOWMA, HERWEHE, TOOL, VANDERPLOEG, VANDOORNINCK, VANROEKEL, VANWYNGARDEN, VRIEZELAAR

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp
Date: 8/27/2016 at 15:09:38

Services Held
Gradus Vriezelaar, 97, died Monday, Nov. 4, 1985 at the Pella Community Hospital.
Funeral services were held Friday at the Monroe First Baptist Church. The Rev. Greg Boyle, conducted services. Burial was in Silent City Cemetery in Monroe.
He was a charter member of the Marion Co. Farm Bureau and also a charter member of the Otley Coop. He was a member of the Northern and Iowa Nut Growers Associations, Iowa State Horticultural Society, the North American Fruit Explorers, State Historical Society and the Monroe First Baptist Church.
For several years he was active in the Tamworth Hog Association, exhibiting them at the Iowa State Fair and sales through Iowa and Illinois. He also did propagation of fruit and nut trees, exhibiting apples, other fruits and nuts at the Iowa State Fair.
Survivors are two sons, James of Waverly and Blaine of Monroe; two daughters, Jean Tool of Monroe and Kathryn Vriezelaar of Otley; 10 grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Louis (Jeanette) Van Roekel of Redlands, Calif., and Mrs. Walter (Margaret) Van Doorninck of Hilltop Manor in Pella.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, a daughter, Korinne Brannon, five sisters – Mary Vander Ploeg, Bertha Van Wyngarden, Nelle Breed and Katie and Tabitha Vriezelaar; and four brothers, Dow, John, Henry and Jimmy.
The son of Arie and Wemeltje Dowma Vriezelaar, he was born Sept. 9, 1888 near Otley.
He was married to Nettie B. Herwehe Dec. 30, 1913.
Source: Monroe Mirror; 14 November 1985 (Monroe Silent City, Block 1, row 13)