Langstraat, Minnie Mrs. Dick 1915-2005

LANGSTRAAT, VANHAARST, VANDERVEGTE

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg- volunteer (email)
Date: 6/1/2012 at 18:35:27

Sioux Center News of Apr 6, 2005 p7-8
Minnie Langstraat
Minnie Langstraat, 89, of Orange City died Sunday, April 3, at the Good Samaritan Village in Sioux Falls. Funeral service was Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Good Samaritan Village Chapel in Sioux Falls with the Rev. Steven Vander Molen officiating. Graveside service was at 5 p.m. at West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City.

Mrs. Langstraat was born November 21, 1915, in the Netherlands, the daughter of Dick John and Gertie (Van Haarst) Vander Vegte, Her family came to the United States when she was a child, and they settled in Sioux County. On March 7, 1941, she married Dick Langstraat in Orange City. They made their home in Orange City, where she was a homemaker and also worked part-time as a housekeeper at Northwestern College, a clerk at Korver's 5 & 10 Store and a cook at the American Legion Bowling Alley. In 2001, the couple moved to the Good Samaritan Village, where she was a happy resident who liked to visit with people. She participated in all their activities, including bowling, singing hymns, playing bingo and folding laundry. She also played in Good Samaritan's bell choir, which gave concerts in area retirement homes. She was a member of First Reformed Church in Orange City, where the couple were faithful listeners of their radio broadcasts. She had served as grandparents for the Area IV Education Agency in Northwest Iowa.

Grateful to have shared her life are her husband of 64 years, Dick; a daughter and her husband, Karen and Jerry Edmunds of Sioux Falls; two granddaughters; a great-grandson; a brother, Dick Vander Vegte of Phoenix, Arizona; three sisters, Gertrude Vander Vegte and Johanna Reinders, both of Orange City, and Antoinette Van Gelder of Creston; and many nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by four brothers, Gerrit, Edward, Henry and Herman Vander Vegte; and two sisters, Henrietta Reekers and Wilimina Vander Vegte, as a child. Memorials will be directed to the Good Samaritan Village