Feekes, Theodore 1854-1917 & Tryntje De Roos Family

FEEKES, DEROOS, SMIES, VISSER

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 9/27/2021 at 06:05:13

Feekes, Theodore 1854-1917 and Tryntje De Roos Family

This story was taken from the Sioux Center Centennial book of 1991 page 334 and was submitted to the book by Wilmina Kleene. It was transcribed for this BIOS by Beth De Leeuw and some research notes were added by Wilma J. Vande Berg, both of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society.

Theodore Feekes son of Gerrit and Christina Feekes was born in Deventer, Netherlands and came to the United States when he was nineteen years of age. His sister Mina and her husband Gradus Aalbers were married in the Netherlands before they came across.

Theodore settled in Orange City where he worked around in that area until he got married to Tryntje De Roos. She also came from the Netherlands when she was around eleven years old in the early 1880’s. Her parents were John De Roos and Akke Visser.

After their marriage they lived around Maurice, Iowa, for about five years. Then they moved north of Carmel, Iowa on a farm two miles north and ¼ mile east. They took their house along. The walls were moved on a wagon and then set up near Carmel.

To these parents eleven children were born. The first died at the age of two years. Christina Feekes married Bastian Schenk, they had two sons and two daughters. John Feekes married Hattie Vander Vorne, they had two sons and two daughters. Gerrit Feekes married Johanna (Mulder) Borgman. they had three daughters. Nick Feekes married Jennie Rozeboom, they had two sons and one daughter. Gradus Feekes married Rena Vanden Hul, they had four sons and two daughters. Opie Feekes married Johanna Sandbulte, they had one son and one daughter. William Feekes married Cornelia Hulshof, they had two sons and four daughters. Attie Feekes married Gerrit Schoep, they had one son and two daughters. Minnie Feekes married William Van Berkum, they had one son and one daughter. Tillie Feekes married Neal Vonk, they had five sons and five daughters.

Grandpa, Theodore Feekes died in 1916, he was 62 years old, at which time he left Grandma Tryntje with six children at home. In the winter grandma, Tryntje would order a barrel of oat meal for the family.

When World War I came and Gradus and Opie were drafted, grandma Tryntje and Rena Vanden Hul went by train to New Jersey to see Gradus before he went across. Opie went across also.

It was custom in the family that we all came home to grandma’s house for Sunday dinner. On her birthday April 29th we would all go to her house all day. The children would not go to school that day, we always had a lot of fun.

Grandma died at the age of 81 years. They were members of the Carmel Church.

Submitted to the book by Wilmina Kleene

RESEARCH NOTES added by Wilma J. Vande Berg

BIRTH record of Theodorus Hubertus Feekes born 13 Oct 1854 to Gerrit Blesius Feekes, an office clerk, age 47 and Christine Smies, born at Deventer, Overijssel Netherlands.

BIRTH of Trijntje de Roos on 29 April 1862 to Jan Willems de Roos and Akke Klazes Visser at Baarderadeel, Friesland Netherlands

OBITUARY of Theodorus H. ‘Doris’ Feekes 1854-1917
Feekes, Theodorous H. ‘Doris’ born 1854 died 1917 wife Tryntje buried in Carmel cemetery Carmel IA as listed in the Sioux County IA cemetery index.
Alton Democrat of April 7, 1917
Doris Feekes now residing in Carmel, died last Friday evening. Funeral services were held form the Reformed church at Carmel Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Feekes owned a farm west of town but left here a few years ago. He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss.
Sioux Center Nieuwsblad of April 11, 1917
Obituary is in Dutch. States he was 62 years of age, signed by Mrs. T. Feekes Carmel IA on April 6, 1917.
Same paper April 4, 1917
. (article not very clear so may be errors in it)
Translated;
After having been ill for some time, Mr. Doris Feekes. The deceased has lived in our midst for years. The deceased was seriously sick the last seven weeks. He reached the age of 62 years. The Funeral took place on Tuesday, We extend our condolences to the wife and children.
Note: See the obit of his wife Tryntje De Roos Feekes 1862-1944 for more family details.

OBITUARY of Tryntje Mrs. Theodore Feekes 1862-1944
Source: Sioux Center News (1-20-1944)
Birth: April 29, 1862
Death: January 12, 1944
Mrs. Theodore Feekes died at her home in Carmel last Wednesday, January 12, following a lingering illness at the age of 81 years.
Trientje De Roos, was born in the Netherlands, on April 29, 1862. She came to America with her parents in 1873, at the age of 11 years.
She lived in the vicinity of Orange City and Maurice the first few years after the arrival of the family in this country. The last 50 years or more she has lived in the vicinity of Carmel.
In April 1882 she was united in marriage to Theodore Feekes. To this union 11 children were born.
Mrs. Feekes had been in fairly good health unto a few years ago, when the weakness of the body began to manifest itself. Her health began to fail more rapidly in recent months, and in the last few days her strength ebbed away day by day.
Those who preceded her in death are one child in infancy, and her husband on March 31, 1917.
Those of the immediate relatives who survive her are the 10 children: Christina (Mrs. Bastian Schenk); John Gerrit of Carmel; Nick of Sheldon; Gradus, Opie, Will, Etta (Mrs. Gerrit Schoep); Minnie (Mrs. William Van Berkum), and Tillie (Mrs. Neal Vonk) all of Carmel. 1 sister, Mrs. Jim Ver Hoef of Sioux Center; 41 grand children and 24 great grandchildren and many other relatives and a host of friends.
Mrs. Feekes united with the Carmel Church on confession of faith 30 years ago. She was a member of the Ladies Aid for many years.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the home and at 1:30 at the Carmel Reformed Church, Reverend Harmelink officiating, assisted by Reverend G. Bosch of Maurice.
A quartet composed of Bernard Mouw, Mrs. Richard Dibbet and Mrs. Walter Post, sang for the occasion: "Softly and Tenderly", "The Home Overthere", and "We shall Meet".
Among those who attended the funeral from other places were Reverend and Mrs. T. Baker of Edgerton, Minnesota, Reverend and Mrs. G. Aalberts of Winnebago, Nebraska, and Reverend and Mrs. Henry Vande Brake from Davis, South Dakota.

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