Jahde, Elaine I. 1944-2013

JAHDE, FYLSTRA

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 9/4/2013 at 09:59:32

Sioux City Journal
August 26, 2013

MAURICE, Iowa | Elaine Jahde, 68, of Maurice died Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, at Orange City Health System.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Memorial Funeral Home of Sioux Center, with the Rev. David Daumer officiating. Interment will follow the funeral service in Resthaven Memorial Park, rural Le Mars, Iowa. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m., at the funeral home.

Elaine Iona Jahde was born Oct. 12, 1944, near Sioux Center, Iowa, to Art and Anna (Fylstra) Kruizenga. She was raised on the family farm near Maurice, Iowa, where she lived until becoming a resident of Long Term Care in Orange City, on Dec. 23, 2012.

Elaine graduated with the class of 1963. She was united in marriage to Richard L. Jahde on Dec. 4, 1963. Richard preceded Elaine in death on April 18, 1994. As a young woman, Elaine worked as a cook at the Plymouth County Home and Archie’s Waeside Restaurant in Le Mars. Later she performed custodial duties at Kinsey Elementary School in Sioux Center and Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull. She became a stay-at-home mother once their daughter was born.

Elaine loved history. She was especially interested in the events surrounding the lives of John F. Kennedy, Elvis and Princess Diana. She enjoyed cooking and baking. She was always willing to bake an angel food cake for family birthdays, or bake from scratch pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dinner.

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Suzanne and Dennis Schmidt of Boyden, Iowa; her two grandchildren, Justin and Adrianna Schmidt of Boyden; sister and brother-in-law, Rosalie and Mike Dellwo of Sergeant Bluff; sister-in-law, Ravina Kruizenga of Holland, Mich.; a niece, Candace Brickey of N. Little Rock, Ark.; and nephew, Chad Kruizenga of Zeeland, Mich.

In addition to her husband, Elaine was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Harvard Kruizenga; and a nephew, Vic Dykhuizen.