DeJong, Frank Sr. 1882-1977

DEJONG, GRAANSTRA, LEVERING

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg (email)
Date: 8/9/2016 at 19:22:19

Alton Democrat October 5, 1977

Frank De Jong Sr., 95, Orange City, resident of the Pioneer Home, died Wednesday morning. Services were 10 a.m. Friday in Calvary Christian Reformed Church. The Rev. John H. Rubingh officiated. Burial was in West Lawn Cemetery under direction of the Van Gelder Funeral Home.

Mr. De Jong was born March 13,1882, in The Netherlands. He married Kate Graanstra Feb. 16, 1905, in Orange City. She died in 1949. He married Mrs. Margaret Levering in June of 1955 at Doon. She died in 1963. Before moving (o the Pioneer Home here he farmed and later became a realtor at Hospers. Mr. De Jong was a member of Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Orange City and a past member of the Consistory of the Hospers Christian Reformed Church.

Survivors include a son, Bert of Sheldon; four daughters, Mrs. Henry (Alice) Kreykes and Mrs. Joe (Winnie) Smit, both of Sheldon, Mrs. Bill (Florence) Smit of Sioux Center and Mrs. Ray (Harriet) De Jong of Grand Rapids, Mich.; a step-son, Julius Levering of Amherst, N.D.; a step-daughter, Mrs. Greta Levering of Sheldon; 20 grandchildren, and 53 great-grandchildren