MEERDINK, Harold A. 1913-1999
FORD, BECK, MEERDINK
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/14/2009 at 19:41:04
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HAROLD A. MEERDINK
OSAGE, IOWA - Harold A. Meerdink, 86, of Osage, died Wednesday (Oct. 6, 1999) at the Osage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, Osage.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Osage, with the Rev. Rick Magstadt officiating. Interment will be in the Orchard Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Champion Funeral Home, 702 State St., Osage, with the family present to receive friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. There will be further visitation one hour prior to services on Saturday at the church.
Harold was born Jan. 19, 1913, at Lake Andes, S.D., the son of J.H. and Louise (Beck) Meerdink. The family moved when Harold was a child to a farm west of Nashua. He attended country school and graduated from Nashua High School. Harold later graduated from the St. Paul Bible Institute and Nyack College, in Nyack, N.Y. After college, Harold farmed with his father.
On Jan. 10, 1940, Harold married Ruth Ford, of Orchard, at Mason City. They farmed east of Orchard until 1980, moving to Osage in 1985.
Harold was a member of the Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Osage, where he was a church elder, church board member and was the church treasurer for many years. He served on the Osage Community School Board and was a St. Paul Bible College Trustee for many years.
He was survived by his wife, Ruth Meerdink, of Osage; two daughters, Joyce Ramsey and her husband, Mike, of St. Anthony, Minn., and their son, Kyle; Rosemary Mader and her husband, Bob, of Hopkins, Minn., and their son, Aaron, and their daughter, Emily; two sons, Keith Meerdink and his wife, Lois, of Salem, Ore., and their daughters, Anita and Katie Dwight Meerdink, of Orchard; and one brother, Floyd Meerdink, of Charles City.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
[Globe Gazette, Oct. 7, 1999]
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Photo of Harold and Ruth Meerdink from MITCHELL COUNTY PICTORIAL ATLAS, 1977.
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