De Raad, Josephine I. 1914-1998

DENNLER, JOHNSON, KNECHT, MEINS

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 6/23/2008 at 17:23:44

JOSEPHINE I. DE RAAD

CHATSWORTH, Iowa—Josephine I. (Meins) DeRaad, 83, of Chatsworth died unexpectedly Monday, April 13, 1998, at her residence.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Akron, Iowa, with the Rev. Allen Bidne officiating. Burial will be Riverside Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. today, with the family present from 7-8 p.m. at the Schroeder Funeral Home in Akron.

Mrs. DeRaad was born May 29, 1914, in Akron, the daughter of Gerhart and Mary (Knecht) Johnson. She attended country school in the Akron area and was confirmed in the Lutheran faith.

She married Fred G. Meins on March 3, 1933, in Elk Point, S.D. He died June 22, 1962. She then married Arthur DeRaad in 1968, at Chatsworth. He died in April 1986. She was the city treasurer for Chatsworth for many years.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, the church circle, and the Chatsworth Senior Citizens. She volunteered at the Hawarden, Iowa, hospital and thrift store. She enjoyed quilting and flowers.

Survivors include two sons and their wives, William and Verla Meins of Dakota City and Robert L. and Jane Meins of Homer, Neb.; two daughters and their husbands, Mildred and Harold Bonnema of Artesia, Calif., and Shirley and Tim Repp of Sioux City; a stepdaughter and her husband, Eleanor and Bud Erickson of Snohomish, Wash.; a step daughter-in-law, Frankey DeRaad of Hudson, S.D.; 15 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; five great great-grandchildren; seven stepgrandchildren; three sisters, Ella and her husband George Beeler of Sioux Falls, S.D., Alma and her husband Swede Morrison and Irene Nielsen, all of Janesville, Wis.; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Emil Johnson; a sister, Martha Powell; and stepson Lonnie DeRaad.

Pallbearers will be Don and Bob Trageser, Darrell Toben, John Ludwigs, Randy and Carl Westergard.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal—part of the D. Easton Obituary Collection