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JANSEN, Gertie (Van Houten) 1911-1998

JANSEN, VAN HOUTEN, BUS, VAN GELDER, GROOTE, AHDERS

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/31/2008 at 20:06:06

[Lyon County Reporter -- May 27, 1998]

Gertie Jansen, age 87, of Rock Rapids, Lyon county, Iowa, died on Monday May 18, 1998, at Rock Rapids Health Centre. Services were held on Wednesay at Roste Funeral Home, Rock Rapids, with interment in Riverview Cemetery.

Gertie Van Houten was born on February 12, 1911, in Garfield Township, Lyon county, Iowa, the daughter of Mike and Jennie (Bus) Van Houten. She attended school in Rock Rapids and then worked as a housekeeper and babysitter.

On July 5, 1934 she married John Jansen in Luverne, Minnesota. They lived in varous places throughout Lyon county while her husband worked as a farm laborer. She worked for Tony Sieperda's IGA. Independent Produce and Mercantile Bank of Western Iowa in Rock Rapids.

Her husband died on October 25, 1965. She was recently hospitalized in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and later admitted to Rock Rapids Health Centre.

Survivors include one son, Marvin of Sioux Falls' one daughter, Margaret Ahders of Rock Rapids; three grandchildren and two sisters, Johanna Van Gelder and Anna Groote, both of Rock Rapids.


 

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