Keizer, Anna, Mrs. Jake - 1894-1974

KEIZER, REITSMA

Posted By: Linda Vander Linden - Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/1/2010 at 19:44:44

Funeral services were held at the Porter Funeral Home in Rock Valley at 1:30 P.M., December 12 for Mrs. Jake Keizer, 80, of Rock Valley, who died December 10 at Luverne, Minn.

Services were conducted by the Rev. Eugene Soland and burial was in Valley View Cemetery at Rock Valley.

Mrs. Keizer, the former Anna Reitsma, was born February 22, 1894, in The Netherlands. She came to America in 1920 and was married to Jake Keizer in October of 1920. Her husband died in 1966.

Survivors include two sons, Sam of Luverne, and George of Rock Valley; a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Christian) Shomacker of Magnolia, Minn.; four brothers, Wren of Sanborn, Dick of Hawarden, Donald of Fairmont, Minn., and Renza in The Netherlands, a sister in The Netherlands and six grandchildren.

Source: Sioux Center News, December 18, 1974