Visser, Teunis

VISSER, AKKERHUIS

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg <query@mtcnet.net>
Date: 11/7/2009 at 13:22:14

Funeral services will be held in First Christian Reformed Church here at 10:30 A.M., Thursday, March 21, for Teunis Visser, 87, longtime resident of the community, who died March 18 at the Sioux Center Community Hospital.

Services will be conducted by the Rev. B. J. Haan and burial will be in Memory Gardens cemetery here with the Co-operative Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Vissser was born in The Netherlands, January 26, 1887, and grew to manhood there. He came to the U.S. at the age of 21. He married Elizabeth Akkerhuis of Sioux Center June 12, 1914, and they made their home in this community throughout their married life. Mrs. Visser died October 27, 1973.

Survivors include five sons and one daughter, William of Orange City, Gerrit of Sheldon, Gilbert of Sheldon, John of Sioux Center, Peter of Sioux Center, Adrianna (Mrs. George Kots) of Birnamwood, Wis. Also surviving are 20 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, a brother, Peter, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Marinus Vande Berg, of Grand Rapids.

Mr. Visser was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, three sisters, two brothers, a grandchild, Gregory Visser, and one great grandchild, Cheryl Punt.

Source: Sioux Center News, March 21, 1974

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