Meendering, Shirley F. 1947-1999

MEENDERING, VANROEKEL

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 3/6/2013 at 22:31:58

Sioux Center News Mach 23, 1999
Shirley F. Meendering

Pastor Shirley F. Meendering, 51, died Sunday, March 7, in Sioux Center. Funeral services were Wednesday, March 10, at First Reformed Church, Sioux Center, with the Rev. Mark De Witt officiating. Burial was in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Shirley Meendering was born April 24, 1947, in Sioux Center to Albert G. and Harriet (Van Roekel) Meendering. She was a graduate of Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, with a degree in Christian education and a master of divinity.

After serving Reformed churches in Minnesota and Michigan, she was ordained May 12, 1986, as a pastor in the Methodist church. She served Methodist churches in Iowa, the most recent being the Methodist churches in Marathon and Rembrandt.

Because of cancer, she was forced to quit in 1995; and during the last four years she suffered the effects of that disease extensively. Her family and friends were invaluable in caring for her.

Survivors include her mother; two brothers, Marlin and his wife Bonnie Meendering of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and Keith Meendering of Des Moines; a niece, Andrea Meendering, and two nephews, Tim and Steve Meendering, all of Eden Prairie.
She was preceded in death by her father just one week earlier, on February 28.