TeGrotenhuis, Cornie 1900-1953

TEGROTENHUIS

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 1/26/2013 at 14:11:20

Newkirk Farmer Victim of Car Tractor Crash at Road Intersection
Cornie Te Grotenhuis of Newkirk died early Sunday morning from injuries received in a car-tractor collision Saturday at 5:45 p.m. northeast of Newkirk. Mr. Grotenhuis, who was 53 years of ago, was driving a tractor in a northerly direction on a county road when he collided with a car driven by John Den Hartog Jr., 18, of Hospers. The accident happened at an intersection 2 miles east and 1 mile north of Newkirk. The tractor ran into the car broadside and was broken in half by the impact. Mr. Grotenhuis was thrown from the seat and suffered fractured skull and punctured lung. He was taken to the Orange City hospital.

The driver of the car received only minor injuries when his car pitched into the roadside ditch. He was driving a 1941 Chevrolet club coupe and going west at the time of the crash. He works for a brother who lives in the Hospcrs-Newkirk vicinity.

Mr. Te Grotenhuis was a bachelor and lived with his brother Henry 2 miles cast and 1 1/2 miles north of Newkirk, not far from the scene of the accident. Sheriff Harry Dykstra, who investigated the accident says that the intersection in question was clear of obstructing growth of corn or other crops or trees and vision unobstructed in both direction.

Cornie Te Grotenhuis Hospers, Iowa
BORN : June 23, 1900, Hospers, Iowa
DIED: August 30, 1953, Orange City Hospital
Services at 1:00 o'clock at home and 1:30 at the Newkirk Reformed Church
Interment at Newkirk Cemetery, Sept. 1, 1953 Cornie Te Grotenhuis passed away suddenly on Sunday morning following a tractor accident. He was born on June 23, 1900 on a farm northwest of Hospers where he resided ever since. After the death of his mother he made his home with his brother Harry who still resides on the home place.

He was a devout member of the Reformed church at Newkirk and always lived a quiet consecrated life.

He leaves to mourn his passing, two brothers, Henry and Harry, one sister, Mathilda (Mrs. C. Tinklenberg) all of Hospers, besides a host of relatives and friends. Preceding him in death were his father in 1907, his mother in 1943, two sisters, Dora in 1909, Dena, (Mrs. P. Helder) in 1948, and one brother, Joe, also in 1948.
Source: Alton Democrat of September 9, 1950