VanBeek, Juliana (Mrs. Peter)1916-2003

VANBEEK, SCHELLING, KASTEIN

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-volunteer
Date: 8/27/2013 at 22:08:13

Source: Hawarden Independent (After 3-25-2003)

Born: November 27, 1916
Died: March 25, 2003

Julianna Van Beek, 87, of Sioux Center, Iowa died Thursday, March 25, at her home. Funeral services were March 29, at the Netherlands Reformed Church of Sioux Center with the Rev. G. M. de Leeuw officiating. Interment followed in Memory Gardens Cemetery of Sioux Center. Memorial Funeral Home of Sioux Center was in charge of arrangements.

Juliana (Schelling) Van Beek was born November 27, 1916 on the family farm west of Sioux Center the daughter of Cornelius and Hendricks (Kastein) Schelling. On December 27, 1939 she was united in marriage to Peter A. Van Beek at her parent’s home near Sioux Center. Mr. Van Beek died on November 14, 1985. Over the years Juliana and Peter farmed near Alton, Sioux Center and Fairview, South Dakota. They retired in Sioux Center in 1980. Juliana had been a resident of the New Homestead. She was a Member of the Netherlands Reformed Church of Sioux Center.

Survivors include five sons, Albert Van Beek of Inwood; Cornie Van Beek of Sioux Center; Gerald Van Beek of Inwood; Ronald Van Beek of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Peter Van Beek of Sioux Fall; and James Van Beek of Ireton; four daughters, Harriet Bonnema of Ireton; Priscilla Driesen of Doon; Mary Ann De Groot of Hull; Eileen Ruth De Jager of Ireton; 37 grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; a sister, Ella Marie Overeem of Sioux Center; and three sister-in-law, Edna Schelling, Gertrude Van Beek and Elizabeth Van Beek all of Sioux Center.

She was preceded in death by her husband, a daughter-in-law, Wilmina Van Beek; seven brothers, Rochus, Bernard, William, Lane, Ralph, Paul, and John Schelling; and three sisters, Emmetje Van Bochove, Fredrieka Vander Brink, Elizabeth Van Grootheest.