Cleveringa, Margaret E. Mrs. Anthony 1920-2012

CLEVERINGA, VANDEBRAKE, VANHORSSEN

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 9/10/2012 at 12:28:19

Margaret E. Cleveringa
March 2, 1920 - September 4, 2012
Mrs. Margaret Cleveringa, age 92, of Orange City, passed away on Tuesday, September 4, 2012, at the Happy Siesta Health Care Center in Remsen.
There will be a funeral service on Saturday, September 8, at 1:00pm, at the First Reformed Church in Maurice. The Rev. Mark Woeltge and the Rev. Harlan De Jong will officiate. Interment will follow at the Sherman Township Cemetery near Maurice..
Margaret "Mugs" Elaine was born on March 2, 1920, in rural Maurice, the daughter of William and Effie (Vande Brake) Van Horssen. She attended country school near Maurice and Maurice High School for one year. She then lived and worked on her father’s farm.
On May 1, 1941, she married Anthony "Tony" Cleveringa in Maurice. They lived and farmed on the "home place" northwest of Orange City for 48 years. Tony died on November 9, 1989. Margaret moved to Orange City in the fall of 1990. She became a resident of Happy Siesta in April of 2012, for rehabilitation following surgery.
She was a long time member of the Maurice First Reformed Church, where she was baptized and married.
Farming was in her blood. At age 91 she was tending five gardens. As an avid gardener, she shared a lot of flowers, produce, and food prepared from her harvest. She loved listening to or watching any sport, especially hockey, and was a longtime season ticket holder of
the Sioux City Musketeers, still attending games at 92. Short visits to friends and relatives, as well as running errands for those in long-term care and nursing homes, gave her enjoyment. Weekly, for 31 years, she made cream puffs for her son-in-law and others.
Survivors are her daughter and husband, Mary Ann (Cleveringa) and Paul Winchell, of Orange City; and a granddaughter and husband, Carmen (Winchell) and the Rev. Mark Woeltge, and two great-grandchildren, Ashlyn and Garin Woeltge, all of Lindstrom, Minnesota; and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a sister and her husband, Elizabeth H. and Arie Van Marel; a brother and his wife, Gerrit M. and Helen Van Horssen; two step-brothers, Louis Boeyink, and his wife, Dorothy, and Paul Boeyink; and a special nephew, Dr. Russell Van Marel.
Source: Oolman Funeral Home, Orange City, IA., obit.