VanderStoep, Leona Mrs. Arie 1900-1993

VANDERSTOEP, MCADAMS, SMITH

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Date: 3/6/2010 at 05:42:11

LEONA VANDER STOEP
ORANGE CITY, Iowa — Leona C. Vander Stoep, 92, of Orange City died Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1993, at Plymouth Manor Care Center in Le Mars.
A memorial service will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the American Reformed Church in Orange City, with the Rev. Marlin Vander Wilt and the Rev. Robert Vander Schaaf officiating. A private burial will be at West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City at a later date. Visitation with the family will be following the service at the church. VanEtten-Oolman-Van Gelder Funeral Home of Orange City is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Vander Stoep was born July 9, 1900, in Whitman, Neb., the daughter of Clarence K. and Emma (McAdams) Smith. She was raised at Grand Junction, Colo. She attended Central College in Pella for two years and then took nurses training at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, graduating as a registered nurse in 1923. On July 1, 1924, she married Arie Vander Stoep at Pella. The couple moved to Orange City in 1928, where she was a nurse for 42 years.
Mrs. Vander Stoep was a member of the American Reformed Church, where in earlier years she had been active in the women’s mission group. She had also been a member of the Orange City Federated Women’s Club and the Northwestern College Auxiliary in Orange City.
As one of the pioneers of the Orange City Tulip Festival, she served as chairperson of the queen’s coronation committee for several years. This interest evolved into her Tulip Festival scrapbook project, which is considered a complete festival record and is used as a resource for current steering committe members. At her request, these books will be given to the Dutch heritage collection at Northwestern College’s Ramaker Library.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Corene and her husband, Arie L. Koole of Sheldon; two grandsons, Frank Warner III of Maple Plain, Minn., and Neal Koole and his wife, Kay of Orange City; two great-granddaughters, Bridget and Kathleen Marie; a sister, Corene Ryan of Howell, Mich.; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a great-grandson, Frank Warner IV; two brothers; and five sisters.
Source: Local newspaper after 1-20-1993