VanZanten, Coba, Mrs. Cornelius E., 1917-1954

VANZANTEN, BLANKESPOOR

Posted By: Lydia Lucas-Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/20/2011 at 08:39:33

[Portions of this obit were blacked out by ink blots]

VAN ZANTEN RITES HELD MONDAY

Funeral services were held Monday, April 26 at [blot] for Mrs. Cornelius [Van Zanten] at the First R[eformed church]. She died Thursday [blot] at the S[blot] Sioux Falls.

Coba [blot] Blankespoor was born August 19, 1917 at Sioux Center to Mr. and Mrs. Evert Blankespoor and moved to Rock Valley at an early age. She graduated from high school in 1934 and taught rural school in Plato Township for five years.

She married Cornelius E. Van Zanten February 4, 1942. To the couple four children were born. Mrs. Van Zanten was a member of the First Reformed church of Rock Valley where she was president of the Kings Daughters of that church.

She leaves to mourn her passing, her husband, Cornelius; her four daughters, Albertha, Helen, Clarine and Evelyn; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evert Blankespoor; her two sisters, Mrs. Dick Bakker of Alvord and Nellie of Rock Valley and two brothers, Henry of Inwood, and John of Sioux Center and many other relatives and a host of friends.

Services were held in the parental home at 1:30 and at the church at 2:00. A quartet, Mrs. Henry Feekes, Mrs. Ted Feekes, Mr. Stanley De Zeeuw and Mr. Henry Rozeboom sang "Jesus Paid It All," with Mrs. John Kragt as organist.

The pallbearers were John Kersbergen, Martin Vander Velde, John Vander Sanden, Ted Mulder, Bert Blick and Tony De Bey, the Deacons of the church. The Elders of the church were honorary pallbearers.

The Kings Daughters, of which Mrs. Van Zanten was president and the Consistory, of which Mr. Van Zanten is a member, were seated as a group.

Burial was in Valley View cemetery with the arrangements made by Vander Ploeg Funeral home.

Source: Rock Valley Bee, September 29, 1954.