VanVooren, Charles, 1877-1962

VANVOOREN, DECOEYER

Posted By: Lydia Lucas-Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/21/2011 at 20:37:41

CHARLES VAN VOOREN

Funeral services for Charles Van Vooren, Sr., 84, were held Wednesday, June 27, at 10 a.m. in St. Mary's Catholic church at Rock Valley. Mr. Van Vooren died Saturday night, June 23, at a Sioux Falls hospital after a brief illness. Rev. Ralph Reinhart officiated. Burial was in the church cemetery. The rosary was recited Tuesday evening at the Porter Funeral home.

Mr. Van Vooren was born July 27, 1877, at Biersliet, the Netherlands. He came to America in March, 1902. He married Ida De Coeyer in April, 1914. He farmed in the Rock Valley vicinity before retiring and moving to Rock Valley in 1945.

Survivors are the widow, Ida, four daughters, Louise (Mrs. Mat Baatz) of Hudson, S.D.; Mary (Mrs. Bastian Lems) of Lakewood, Calif.; Margaret (Mrs. Willie Hevern) of Rock Valley, Charles Van Vooren, jr., of Rock Valley, and Aileen (Mrs. Albert Blauwet) of Larchwood, Iowa; 22 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Source: Sioux Center News, July 5, 1962.

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Similar obituaries were published in the Rock Valley Bee (July 5, 1962) and the Alton Democrat (July 5, 1962).

The Rock Valley Bee obit adds as survivors two brothers, Ben of Larchwood and Peter of the Netherlands. It also provides a long list of out of town relatives and friends attending the funeral.

The Alton Democrat obit includes the names of the pallbearers: Francis McNamara, Vincent McNamara, Hein Kosters, John Cullinan, Tom McGill, and Walter McNamara.