VanSurksum, Agnes (Mrs. Gerrit) 1902-1999

VANSURKSUM, KREYKES, AARDEMA

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-Volunteer
Date: 4/14/2013 at 23:14:54

Source: Sioux County Capital-Orange City (12-5-1999)

Agnes Van Surksum, 97, of Hospers died Saturday, December 4, at Sioux Center Community Hospital Center in Sioux Center.Services were at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the First Christian Reformed Church in Hospers with Dr. Cornel Venema officiating. Burial was in Hospers Cemetery.
Mrs. Van Surksum was born January 26, 1902, near Hospers, the daughter of Johann and Ella (Aaardema) Kreykes. She married Gerrit Van Surksum on February 15, 1923, in rural Hospers. The couple farmed near Hospers until 1963, when they retired and moved into Hospers. He died April 25, 1989.

Survivors include two sons and their wives, John and LaVonne of Hospers and William and Marjorie of Sheldon; two daughters and their husbands, Ella Mae and Martin Horjus of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Wilma and Marvin Vink of Sheldon; a son-in-law, Dr. Richard Venema of Chicago; 20 grandchildren; 49 great-grandchildren; two step great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; three step-great-great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Henry and Marcus Kreykes, both of Sheldon.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Carrie; a son, William John; and an infant great-grandson; two sisters; and three brothers.