VAN DEN TOP, Dick 1918-2002

VAN DEN TOP, ROSENBOOM, BURGERS, TWEDT, ROMEREIM, AAESHEIM, HIERONYMUS, BROWER

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner (email)
Date: 12/18/2002 at 14:03:26

Dick Van Den Top, 84, of Canton, S.D., died Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2002, at Canton-Inwood Memorial Hospital.

Services were Saturday at Anderson Funeral Home, Canton, with interment in Valley View Cemetery, Rock Valley.

Mr. Van Den Top was born April 6, 1918, at Alvord, the son of Gerrit and Elizabeth (Rosenboom) Van Den Top. He attended country school near Alvord.

On April 2, 1940, he married Willemina "Minnie" Burgers at Inwood. They farmed in the Canton area until he retired in 1983. He became a resident of Canton Good Samaritan Center in 1998.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Gerrit of Early, George of Doon and Melvin of Sioux Falls, S.D.; four daughters, Mrs. Ward (Elizabeth) Twedt, Mrs. Gary (Wilma) Romereim and Mrs. Jim (Marlene) Aaesheim, all of Canton, and Mrs. Jet (Carol) Hieronymus of Mountain City, Tenn.; 17 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; two stepgreat-grandchildren; two brothers, Bill of Rock Valley and Gerrit Jr. of Canton, and one sister, Mrs. Ron (Jennie) Brower of Ellsworth, Minn.