DeJong, Peter S. 1904-1991

DEJONG, CONDRA

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Date: 11/7/2011 at 05:08:20

　
Peter S. DeJong
Januaiy 29, 1904---February 27, 1991
Peter S. DeJong, 87, died quietly in Culver City, California, on February 27, 1991. He was born to Sjoerd and Emma De Jong in Alton, on January 29, 1904. He was graduated from Northwestern Classical Academy in Orange City and Central College In Pella, followed by graduate work at the Universities of Iowa and Minnesota.
He married Carolyn Condra of Corydon in 1930. From 1929 to 1932, he was in public education, serving last as superintendent in Linn Grove. In 1932, he became a professional Boy Scout executive, serving in Lake Agassiz Council in Grand Forks, North Dakota, the Pike’s Peak Council in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Rocky’ Mountain Council in Pueblo, Colorado.
During the World War II labor shortage, he arranged with the U.S. Forestry Service to train scouts and their leaders to plant seedling pines, a project which fostered a healthy 350-acre pine forest in the Rocky Mountains.
His last scouting assignment was at Winnebago Council in Mason City, from 1949 to 1959, where he worked to create a permanent 375-acre wilderness scout ranch near Marble Rock.
In 1959, he retired from scouting and moved to Culver City, where he became a real-estate broker, was active in legislative work, a member of the Culver City Board of Realtors and was twice named realtor of the year.
He was an active member of Lions, Rotary and Kiwanis at various times and locations, and served two years as president of the Pearblossom, California, Kiwanis Club.
De Jong is survived by his wife, Carolyn; two sons, Stuart De Jong of Madison, New Jersey, and Paul De Jong and his wife, Judy (Olson) De Jong, of Ames; a daughter. Carolyn Clinton, and her husband, Noel Clinton, of Laguna Hills, California; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a foster sister, Nellie Vos Bailey, of Boulder, Colorado.
Funeral services were by Van Gelder Funeral Home in Orange City and burial in Newkirk. The family requests that memorial gifts be made to Amnesty International or to a charity of the donor’s choice.
Source:Sioux Center News of March 6, 1991