Vande Kieft, Johanna,(Mrs.John) 1922-2011

VANDEKIEFT, HAVERHALS

Posted By: Mary Lou Verburg Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/13/2014 at 15:17:00

Born: April 27, 1922 rural Lebanon, Iowa
Died: November 29,2011 Sioux Center, Iowa

Johann Vande Kieft, 89 of Sioux Center died Tues. November 29, at Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center.

Memorial service was at 2:30 p.m. Fri. at Bethel Christian Reformed Church with Rev. Duane Tinklenberg officiating. Interment was at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Sioux Center.

Mrs. Vande Kieft was born April 27, 1922 to John and Marie Haverhals on a farm near Lebanon, where she was raised and went to school through the eighth grade. She married John Vande Kieft on Dec. 14, 1943 and continued to live with her family until he returned from serving in WWII. They farmed together for 35 years and moved to Sioux Center in 1980 where they worked for the city and took care of Children's Park for 13 years. She volunteered at the Sioux Center Hospital, Justice for All and Friendship Bible Study. She lived at Crown Pointe and Royale Meadows for six years. She loved doing handwork, gardening, visiting with friends and relatives and jigsaw puzzles.

She was a member of Lebanon Christian Reformed Church and later Bethel Christian Reformed Church.

Survivors include her three daughters, Phyllis and her husband Jim O'Connor of Cheyenne, WY; Donna and her husband Bill Goodwin of Everett, WA.; and Mary and her husband Terry Beimers of Sioux Center; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; sister, Marie Van Kley of Sioux Center; sister-in-law, Artie Bonnema and her husband Elmer of Sioux Center.

She was preceded in death by her husband; sister and brother-in-law, Ann and John Wiechers; brother and sister-in-law, A.J. and Jennie Haverhals Jr.; and brother-in-law, Floyd Van Kley.

The Vande Kieft family prefers memorials be directed to the Bethel Christian Reformed Church Christian Education Fund.

Source: Local paper after 11/29, 2011