VerSteeg, Klaas 1838-1915

VERSTEEG, DENHARTOG, BAKKER

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/18/2011 at 08:47:18

From the Orange City ‘deVolksvriend’ newspaper in Dutch.
Translated reads something like this.

Friday morning the 21st, of May. K. Versteeg very suddenly deceased. There was a few days he had a good period, and had Thurs evening still walked through the garden, so no one suspected that the end was so near.
The man suffered from the sugar consumption (diabetes?) and the consequences of hemoptysis on adrenal waist at the age of 78 years. Remarkable that he died just one week after his brother from Boyden is deceased and buried. The deceased was born in Ned. as a child and came to America with his parents who settled to Pella. More than 49 years if he married (Neeltje Den Hartog). From this marriage were born nine children.
the youngest, a daughter 27 years a few years ago they were deprived of by death. The surviving children are: N. Versteeg, Mrs.Simon Tinkelenburg of Edgerton MN. Dick Versteeg, Mrs.. W. Sterrenburg, Mrs. P. de Cook, Mrs.. Gt Van Marel John and Dingeman Versteeg living here. Thirty years ago the family moved here and lived several years on a farm. Later they came to town and had a house in the northern part.
In addition to his wife and children he leaves elderly brother, Krijn Versteeg, besides two sisters, Mrs.. M. Vermeer and Mrs.. G. Boland, all at Pella. Monday was the burial order from the 1st Ger. The church where by Englishman a serious sermon was delivered in response to Psalm 39, 5 and 6. The deceased was the true hero devoted and blameless in his walk.
(See the obit of his wife Neeljte Versteeg for more family details. According to an account on line Klaas's parents were Klaas VerSteeg and Hendrina Everdina Bakker)