VanVeldhuizen, Henry, 1899-1993

VANVELDHUIZEN, VANDENSANDEN, KROESE, BERGSMA

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Date: 10/28/2011 at 19:23:50

Henry Van Veldhuizen, 93, of Sheldon died Monday, May 17, 1993 at Northwest Iowa Health Center at Sheldon.
Services were held Thursday, May 20, at the First Reformed Church in Sheldon. The Rev. Dr. Warren Hietbrink and the Rev. Kenneth Tenckinck officiated. Burial was in Roseland Cemetery at Sanborn under direction of the Sanborn Funeral Home.

Mr. Van Veldhuizen was born Nov. 8, 1899 in Ede, Holland, the son of Gysbertus and Aartje (Van Den Sanden) Van Veldhuizen. He came to the United States at the age of eight and lived for two years in Hull and then on farms near Middleburg in Iowa and Bigelow, Minn., and later at Sanborn. He received two years of his education in Holland and continued in country schools near Hull and Middleburg.

He married Nellie Kroese March 6, 1930 at her parents' home northeast of Sanborn. The couple farmed east of Sanborn until March 1966, when they retired and moved into town. She died Dec. 30, 1971. He married Josina Bergsma Dec. 1, 1981 at the First Reformed Church in Sheldon. The couple made their home in Sheldon.

Mr. Van Veldhuizen was a member of the First Reformed Church of Sheldon and the Psalms Singers. He had served as an elder and deacon at the First Reformed Church in Sanborn and had also served as a Sunday school teacher for many years.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters and their husbands, Esther and Robert Zonnefeld and Marilyn and H. Dale DeBoer, all of Sibley; two sons and their wives, Gene and Jeane Van Veldhuizen and Ivan and Harriet Van Veldhuizen, all of Sanborn; a stepson and his wife, Jim and Margie Bergsma of Tucson, Ariz.; a stepdaughter and her husband, Coreen and John Van Sloten of Rock Valley; 13 grandchildren; 10 stepgrandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; 12 stepgreat-grandchildren; a brother, Gysbert of Hospers; and two sisters, Johanna Prins of Primghar and Nell Boterhoek of Hospers.

He was also preceded in death by an infant grandson; three brothers, John, Gerrit and Ben; a half brother, Evert; and a half sister, Martha Kuiper.

Source: Sioux County Capital, May 27, 1993.