Janssen, Melvin F. 1928-2000

JANSSEN, BEITELSPACHER, HASS

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 7/16/2008 at 14:19:57

NAME OF DECEASED & AGE: Melvin F. Janssen, 71, of Rock Valley
CAUSE OF DEATH:
DATE of DEATH: Thursday, May 25, 2000
PLACE of DEATH: at Hegg Memorial Hospital, in Rock Valley
DATE of BIRTH: July 23, 1928
PLACE of BIRTH: in Grant Township, Plymouth County, Iowa
PARENTS: son of Dick and Anna (Beitelspacher) Janssen
SPOUSE & DATE of MARRIAGE: Joyce Hass, April 19, 1949
PLACE OF MARRIAGE: South Sioux City, Nebraska
OCCUPATION: He worked on the Clarence Heuer farm for two years, before they began farming near Doon, Iowa. He also began trucking. His wife died Dec. 21, 1972. He entered Morningside Manor in Alcester, S.D., in June 1990. He entered Valley Manor in Rock Valley, in March 1994.
SURVIVORS: include three sons; three daughters; four brothers, Walter and his wife, Wanda of Mission Hills, Calif., Lester of Hawarden, Harold and his wife, Dixie of Ireton, and Kenneth and his wife, Charlene of Hawarden; a sister and her husband, Velma and Robert Moller, of Hawarden; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
PRECEDED in DEATH by: grandson, Kory Grevengoed, and his parents.
PLACE of BURIAL: Services were held Saturday at Christ Lutheran Church in Alvord, Iowa. [The obituary did not indicate where he is buried.]
NEWSPAPER SOURCE & DATE: The Sioux City Journal

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