VandeGriend, Nelvia (Mrs. Floyd) 1912-2007

VANDEGRIEND, BRANSEN, KOSTERS

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-Volunteer
Date: 2/5/2015 at 21:06:46

Source: North West Iowa Review (8-2007)

Born: August 3, 1912
Died: August 8, 2007

Mrs. Nelvia Vande Griend, age 95, of Hull, passed away on Wednesday, August 8, 2007, at the Sioux Center Community Hospital.

There will be a memorial service on Saturday, at 2:00pm, at the First Christian Reformed Church in Hull. The Rev. Paul Hansen will officiate. Interment will be prior to the service at the Hope Cemetery in Hull. There will be a prayer service on Saturday, at 1:15pm, at the church.

Visitation will be after 5:00pm on Friday, with the family present from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, at the CHURCH. Arrangements are with the Oolman Funeral Home in Hull.

Nelvia Lillian was born on August 3, 1912, at Rock Valley, the daughter of Gerrit William and Gertrude (Bransen) Kosters. She was raised at Rock Valley, where she graduated from the Christian School.

On July 8, 1932, she married Floyd Vande Griend at Hull. They farmed at Hull until 1962, when they retired into Hull. He passed away on November 19, 1993, in Hull, after more than 61 years of marriage.

In the fall of 1999, Nelvia became a resident of the Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull.

She was a member of the First Christian Reformed Church, where she had been active in the Helping Hands Society. She was a former member of the Middleburg Christian Reformed Church.

Mrs. Vande Griend was a homemaker and also served as a kitchen aide at the Pleasant Acres Care Center and as a foster grandparent at Hope Haven in Rock Valley.

Survivors include her five children, Jerace Vande Griend, and his wife, Clarice, of Sioux Center; Joyce, and her husband, Pete Mesman, of Hudsonville, Michigan; Lyla, and her husband, Donald Boer, of Hull; Myrna Koning, of Grandville, Michigan; and Veralyn, and her husband, Merlin Plender, of Denver, Colorado; nineteen grandchildren, fifty-three great-grandchildren, thirteen great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Freda Drost, of Denver.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a son-in-law, Henry Koning; a great-grandson; and five brothers and sisters, William Kosters, John Kosters, Lillian Niekerk, Allen Kosters, and Henry Kosters.

Memorials may be directed to the Hull Christian School and Western Christian High School in Hull.