VanSteenbergen, Gerrit - 1883-1937

VANSTEENBERGEN, VANDERMEER

Posted By: Linda Vander Linden-Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/25/2012 at 14:03:03

Sioux Center News, October 14, 1937

Mr. Gerrit Van Steenbergen of Hull, son of Mrs. W. Van Steenbergen of Sioux Center, passed away at the Sacred Heart Hospital at Le Mars on Tuesday morning, October 12th at 6:20 A.M. after an illness of five days. His death was caused by internal hemorrhage. He was taken sick suddenly last Wednesday while doing bookwork, and rushed to the hospital at LeMars following stomach hemorrhages. He was given transfusions to make up for loss of blood but he made no headway, in spite of them, and passed away early in the morning on his sixth day at the hospital.

He was born in Orange City on Oct. 8, 1883, and passed his 54th birthday last Friday during his illness. Except for a few years when his parents lived in South Dakota he lived in this vicinity and is well known throughout the county. He has been a jeweler in Hull for many years and was for years a member of the school board and town council. He leaves to mourn his untimely death his wife, three daughters, Mrs. H. Meylink, Wilma and Helen, and two sons, Walter who is in the U.S. Navy, and Dale of Hull, three grandchildren and 2 brothers, John of Prairie City, Iowa and William of Grand Rapids.

His devoted mother, Mrs. W. Van Steenbergen of Sioux Center, has previously laid to rest two sons, Edward and Jacob, and her husband, in the family burial plot in the Sioux Center cemetery.

Mr. & Mrs. John Van Steenbergen of Prairie City arrived here Tuesday, and William Van Steenbergen of Grand Rapids is expected today. Funeral services will be held today, Thursday, October 14th, 1:30 P.M., from the home and 2:00 P.M., from the American Ref. Church in Hull, and interment will take place in the Sioux Center cemetery.

NOTE: Wife was Sarah Vander Meer, and they were married December 27, 1911 in Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa.