Vander Kamp, Wynard, abt.1878-1954

VANDERKAMP

Posted By: Mary Lou Verburg (email)
Date: 1/9/2014 at 12:59:41

Wynard Vander Kamp, former Hospers merchant and resident, died suddenly at Sheldon, Wednesday at the age of 76 years. His daughter and family Lt. and Mrs. Lester Grau and sons had left the same morning for their home in Texas after a visit at the parental home.

Surviving are his wife, and two daughters, Mrs. Grau of Texas, and Mrs. Elmer Doornink of Aberdeen, Washington, one son, Melvin of Chicago, Ill.

He was preceded in death by his firt wife and one daughter, Beatrice.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the home in Sheldon, and at the First Reformed Church in Hospers, with burial in the Hospers Cemetery.

Source: Alton Democrat May 13, 1954