Ekdom, Hattie Mrs. John 1903-1986

EKDOM, VISSER, FRANKEN

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/5/2011 at 07:23:47

HATTIE EKDOM
Born: March 12, 1903; Sioux Center, Iowa
Passed Away: November 9, 1986; Orange City, Iowa
Age: 83 years, 7 months, 27 days
Funeral Service: Wednesday; November 12, 1986; 10:00 am. First Christian Reformed Church
Orange City, Iowa
Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Ireton, Iowa
Arrangements: Van Etten - Oolman Funeral Home, Orange City, Iowa
Hattie was the daughter of Adrian Visser and Jennie Franken Visser, She was raised in Sioux
County.

On February 8, 1923, she married John Ekdom at Hawarden. They farmed at Hawarden until 1935, when they moved to Ireton, where Mr. Ekdom was in the implement business and later the insurance business, he passed away July 9, 1969, at Orange City. In 1970, Mrs. Ekdom moved to Orange City.

She was a member of the First Christian Reformed Church and its Thy Kingdom Come

Society. She had also been a member of Ladies Zangkoor.

Survivors include her four sons, Stephen, of Orange City; Adrian, of Edgerton, Minnesota; Donald, of Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Wayne, of Pipestone, Minnesota; 13 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceeded in death by her brother, Tony Visser, and sister, Nettie Vander Lugt.

Source: Van Etten - Oolman Funeral Home, Orange City, Iowa
Source: Capital Democrat Orange City (13-11-1986)