Buys, Abraham 1876- 1950

BUYS, DEHAAN

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/29/2010 at 20:30:21

Abraham Buys Dies, Burial Near Adaville After Home Service

Funeral services for Abraham Buys, 73, who died Thursday at his farm home in Johnson Township near here, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the United Brethren Church at Adaville, Ia. Burial will be in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery near Adaville. The Rossow Funeral Home at Akron had charge of arrangements.

Mr. Buys was born September 29, 1876, in North Holland, Netherlands,. He married Anna DeHaan October 18, 1900. They came to the United States in 1908. After residing in Sioux City for a few years he moved to Plymouth county, where he resided on a farm until his death.

Survivors are the widow, three sons, Henry of Texas, John of Akron, Ia., and Albert of Le Mars; two daughters . Miss Marie Buys of Washington, D. C, and Mrs. Antonia Dickinson of Rutherford, N. J.; a brother and a sister of Jefferson, S. D., and four grand- children.

Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
Tuesday, September 26, 1950
Le Mars, Iowa