Velgersdyk, Harvey 1931-1999

VELGERSDYK, VANDEGRIEND, EENHOORN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer
Date: 9/15/2010 at 11:16:44

Velgersdyk, Harvey

Dec 8-1999

Harvey Velgersdyk, 68, of Rock Valley died of cancer Sunday December 5th as his residence.

Services will be at 2pm Thursday at First Christian Reformed Church in Rock Valley with Rev. C. Eric Fennema officiating. Burial will be in memory Gardens Cemetery, Sioux Center.

Velgersdyk was born November 29, 1931 in Hull, the son of John and Nellie (Vande Griend) Velgersdyk. He graduated from Western Christian High School in 1949. He married Christina Eenhoorn on 12-21-1951. He served in the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. the couple made their home in Inwood, where he was employed as am advertising consultant with west Lyon Herald and Northwest Iowa Peach for 18 years. He retired in 1993 and they moved to Rock Valley in 1994.

He was a member of First Christian Reformed Church.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Jerry of Orange City and Loren and his wife Kathy of Sioux Falls; Two daughters and their husbands, Cheryl and Henry Kats of Hull adn Vonda and Jim Sterk of Lynden, Washington; 10 grandchildren; and three brothers and their wives, Clarence and Joyce of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Harold and Jackie of Denver, Colorado, and Marlan and Carol of Sioux Falls.

He was preceeded in death by twin children, Marlo and Marla and his parents.

Submitted by Teressa Lenkey