Reekers, John - Died 1930

REEKERS, VANDENBRINK, KUIKEN

Posted By: Linda Vander Linden-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/17/2011 at 14:20:04

John Reekers, for more than forty years one of the good farmers of this county, passed away at Orange City, Nov. 2, after long suffering from cancer.

He was born in the Netherlands coming to the United States in 1880 and to Sioux County in the year 1887. Two years later he married Miss Marie Vanden Brink, the wedding taking place in the Netherlands, and to this union eight children were born, as follows:

Mrs. A. J. ter Horst, Orange City; Arie of Orange City; Mrs. John Van Peursem, now deceased; Mrs. A. J. Van Peursem, Mrs. J. Oolman, Mrs. Theodore Heemstra, Mrs. Jacob De Haan and John. All live in the vicinity of Orange City.

His first wife passing Beyond, the subject of our sketch was later married to Mrs. Kuiken, who survives to mourn the passing of a good husband and upright citizen.

He is also survived by two brothers, Art and Henry, both of Sheldon, and by two sisters, namely, Mrs. Henry Boeve of Hull and Mrs. Benkelman of Corsica, South Dakota.

Funeral services were held at the First Reformed Church of which the deceased was a devoted member, on this Thursday. Rev. H. Colenbrander officiating, and burial was made at the Orange City cemetery.

The host of friends of the departed extend heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family in the loss of a sterling husband and father who helped to carve out on the prairies of Sioux county the splended future prosperity and productivity of one of the world's most fruitful agricultural areas.

Sioux County Capital, November 7, 1930
Alton Democrat, November 7, 1930