Teunissen, Jennie (Mrs. Henry) - 1911-1958

TEUNISSEN, DEBRUIN

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Date: 2/17/2014 at 10:00:49

Sioux Center News, November 6, 1958

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 p.m., at the home and at 2 p.m, at the Netherlands Reformed Church of Rock Valley for Mrs. Henry Teunissen, 47, who died Friday following a heart attack.

Rev. J. Van Zweden officiated and burial was made at Rock Valley.

Pall bearers were nephews: Bertus, Jake and Gerrit Teunissen, Hans Van Roekel and Marvin & John De Bruin.

Mrs. Teunissen, nee Jennie De Bruin, was born April 14, 1911 in The Netherlands. She came to this country with her parents in 1913 and they settled at Sioux Center. She married Henry Teunissen, May 28, 1934 and they farmed in the Fairview vicinity until they moved north of Rock Valley the past spring.

The deceased is survived by her husband; three daughters, Grace, Marlene and Dorothy; her mother, Mrs. Marinus Van Wordt of Sioux Center; six brothers, Tom De Bruin of Rock Valley; Gerrit, Albert & Henry De Bruin of Fairview; Peter De Bruin of Hudson, and Jake De Bruin of Lynden, Wash. and three sisters, Mrs. Dan De Vries and Mrs. Gerrit Niemeyer of Maurice and Mrs. Gilbert Postma of Doon.