DeWeerd, Ray 1907-1992

DEWEERD, LEUSINK, MCKEE

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 1/26/2013 at 14:21:12

Sioux County Index Hull July 22, 1992
Ray DeWeerd
Funeral services for Ray C. DeWeerd, 85, of Worthington, Minnesota, were held Tuesday at Lynch Funeral Home, Worthington, with interment in West Lawn Cemetery, Orange City.

He died Friday, July 17,1992, in the Worthington Regional Hospital. Mr. DeWeerd was born May 9, 1907, in Sioux County. He received his education in country school in Sioux County. On May 16, 1929, he married Grace Leusink in Sioux County. She died July 25,1941. On June 6, 1963, he married Virginia McKee in Water Valley, Texas.

He lived for many years in Hull where he was employed as a farm laborer and with the Hull Creamery. He moved to Wisconsin in 1941, George in 1950 and Worthington in 1989.

Survivors include three sons, John of El Paso, Texas, Henry of Benton, Arkansas, and. Charles of Germany; two daughters, Mrs. Wayne (Trina) Madsen-Schmuck of Harvard, Illinois, and Mrs. Harriet Abels of Worthington; 19 grandchildren; 36 greatgrandchildren; two brothers, William of Inwood and Howard of Edgerton, Minnesota, and one sister, Mrs. Jake (Winnie) Vant Hal/Hul? of Hull.