Brown, Henrietta (Mrs. Ralph) 1905- 1994

BROWN, NIESSINK, BEYENHOF

Posted By: Mary Lou Verburg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/1/2013 at 13:46:17

Local paper after November 25, 1994

Born: 8-29-1905
Died: 11-25-1994

Henrietta Brown, 89 of Rock Rapids died Friday, Nov 25, 1994 at Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital, Rock Rapids.
Services were Tuesday at First Reformed Church, Rock Rapids, with interment in Riverview Cemetery.

Henrietta Niessink was born Aug. 29, 1905, near Boyden. When she was 2 years old her family moved to Andover, S.D. where she attended school and helped on the farm. When she was a teenager, the family farmed a few years near Luverne, Minn., and then settled north of Rock Rapids.

On Feb. 12, 1925, she married Gerrit Beyenhog in rural Rock Rapids. They lived in Steen, Minn., before moving to Rock Rapids in 1933. She later became a nurse's aide at Restmore Nursing Home in Rock Rapids.