Jongewaard, Neal Dr. 1888 and Kathryn Te Veltrup Family

JONGEWAARD, TEVELTRUP, SINNEMA, VERPLOEG

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Date: 8/21/2021 at 15:18:55

Jongewaard, Neal Dr. 1888 and Kathryn Te Veltrup family

This story was taken from the Sioux Center Centennial book of 1991 pages 385 and 386 and it was submitted to the book by Gene Jongewaard. It was transcribed for this BIOS by Beth De Leeuw and notes added by Wilma J. Vande Berg both of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society.

Dr. N.R. Jongewaard (1888-1959), whose baptismal name was Cornelius Ringert, similar to his father who was named Ringert Cornelius, was born on a farm near the West Branch, a few miles from Sioux Center, Iowa, on February 2, 1888. He was known to his friends as “Doc Neal” and his cemetery stone is shown accordingly.

He attended country school near Sioux Center, and later graduated from Sioux Center High School. His senior class consisted of five men, John DeMots, Walter Balkema, Ben J. Boer and Fred Aue.

His leisure hours during his high school years were spent with his father in Montana, buying cattle and horses and shipping them to Sioux Center for sale to local farmers or sending them on to Chicago to the meat packing companies. Neal’s job was to train the horses to the harness since most of the farm work at that time was done with draft horses. It was during these years, he decided to be a “horse doctor” and in 1909, he graduated as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. “Doc” Neal was the first veterinarian in Sioux Center and practiced for fifty years.

On February 5, 1913, he was united in marriage to Kathryn Elizabeth Te Veltrup (1891-1966) and their two children were Ringert Eugene Jongewaard, Indianapolis, Indiana and Beth Marna Eppink, Washinton, Illinois.

In 1914, the Jongewaards moved to a new house at 347 3rd Avenue N.E. The residence is unique in that it has a barn (still standing) containing not only a room for a car but also a stall for horses, a trough for receiving grain and hay from the second story hay mow. The barn (still in good shape) also contained a coal room, a cob room, and outdoor toilet. The barn is probably one of the few barns remaining in the residential area of Sioux Center.

The horse facility in the barn was necessary because “Doc Neal’s” transportation in those early days was horse and buggy, or sled in winter, a Harley Davidson motorcycle and a Model T. Ford.

“Doc Neal” was known strictly as a horse doctor however considerable time was spent in the care of hogs and cattle. Care of dogs and cats was not encouraged and service was primarily offered to friends as a favor.

He was a faithful member of Central Reformed Church all of his life. He was active in community affairs and served on both the City Council and the Sioux Center School Board. For more than thirty years he was a director of the Valley State Bank.

He passed away September 24. 1959 at Rochester, MN and is buried with Mrs. Kathryn Jongewaard in the Jongewaard plot in the Sioux Center Cemetery.

by Gene Jongewaard

NOTES:

OBITUARY of Dr. Neal Jongewaard 1888-1959
Dr. Jongewaard, local bank director, dies
Dr. Neal Jongewaard, 71, a veterinarian in Sioux Center for the last 50 years, died Thursday afternoon. Sept. 24, at Rochester, Minn, after major surgery the previous Monday. He also was a member of the board of directors of the local Valley State bank for the last 25 years.
He is survived by the widow, Kathryn; one son, Gene of Indianapolis, Ind, one daughter, Mrs. Herman Eppink of Washington, Ill, six sisters, Mrs. Lewis Redeker of Denver, Col, Mrs. P. F. McDonald of Cleveland, OH., Mrs. G. Demots of Sioux Center, Mira of Palmaner, India, Maria of Sioux Center, and Mrs. J. Kirkman of Maderia, Cal, two brothers, Con of Inglewood, Cal, and Harold of Rock Rapids, and five grandchildren.
Funeral service for Mr. Jongewaard were Monday at the Central Reformed church in Sioux Center Burial was in the Sioux Center cemetery.
Source: Rock Valley Bee 10-1-1959

OBITUARY of Kathryn Te Veltrup Mrs. Neal Jongewaard 1891-1966
March 17, 1966 Sioux Center News
Rites for Mrs. Jongewaard 2 p.m. Today Dies Unexpectedly Sunday Evening. Funeral services will be held at Central Reformed church here at 2 p.m. today (Thursday) for Mrs. Neal Jongewaard, 75, long-time resident of Sioux Center, who died suddenly and unexpectedly at her home here Sunday evening of a heart ailment. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Harry Brower and burial will be made in the Sioux Center Community, cemetery, with Lockwood- Jongewaard Funeral Home of Rock Rapids in charge of arrangements. A brief service, attended by immediate relatives and close friends, will be held at the Vander Ploeg Funeral chapel here at 1:30 p.m., preceding the service at Central church.
Mrs. Jongewaard, nee Kathryn te Veltrup, was born near Orange City February 21, 1891, and as a young girl moved with her parents to Lake City, la., where she went through grade school. She
graduated from Orange City High school and was united in marriage February 5, 1913, to Dr. Neal
Jongewaard of Sioux Center. To this union were born two children, Beth (Mrs. Herman Eppink)
of Washington, IL., and Eugene of Indianapolis, Ind., both of whom survive her. She is also survived by five grandchildren and one brother, Ed te Veltrup of Sioux Center. Dr. Jongewaard preceded her in death in 1959. Mrs. Jongewaard was a faithful member of Central Reformed church and had been active in Sunday School. She served as treasurer of her Missionary Society for many years.
Pallbearers will be Maurice Vander Berg, Everett Franken, Don De Gooyer, Ron Van’t Hof of Hospers, Kenneth Doonrink and Gerald Van Roekel. Honorary pall bearers are Anthony Hasselo of Orange City and Harold Boeyink of Sioux Center.
(She was the daughter of Joe Te Veltrup and Elizabeth Sinnema )

Pictured: Neal Jongewaard and Kathryn TeVeltrup .

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