VandeWeerd, Aldert C. 1916-1945

VANDEWEERD, BRANDTS

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-Volunteer
Date: 2/19/2015 at 22:06:24

Source: Sioux County Capital (12-20-1945)

Birth: July 11, 1916
Death: December 8, 1945

Funeral services for Aldert Vande Weerd were held Tuesday afternoon at the home and at the First Reformed Church. He died Saturday, December 8, in Long Beach, California, of a shotgun wound.

Aldert, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Vande weerd, Jr. was born July 11, 1916, on a farm west of Rock Valley. He was a graduate of the Rock Valley Public School. He was married September 17, 1938, to Delma Brandts at the Spencer Fair. At that time he was employed by the Booth and Olson Construction Company. Since then, he served for a time in the Navy, and had been living at Long Beach, California.

Surviving are his wife and infant daughter, his mother and father, three sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Roy Bartman, Mrs. Ed Schemper, both of Sheldon, and Mrs. Michael Lafreddo of California, Clarence Vande Weerd of the U.S. Marine Corps, and Chester and Franklin Vande Weerd at home.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Vande Weerd received word December 8 that Aldert had been shot in the abdomen at about 7 o'clock Wednesday evening while he was returning home from work in a market at Long Beach. He was then reported in a serious condition. Saturday evening a telephone message informed them that he had died at 3:30 Saturday afternoon. The circumstances explaining it so far as possible was to be sent later.