Lenderink, Henry A. 1880-1900

LENDERINK

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke--Volunteer
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:32

Source: Sioux County Herald (12-19-1900)

Born: 1880
Died: December 17, 1900

Henry A. Lenderink, aged 20 years and the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. and Sarah Lenderink, was run down by an electric car in Chicago Sunday evening and received injuries from which he died a few hours later in the hospital where he had been carried. Details of the accident are meager. Henry left the home of his friends, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Oggel in Chicago, about 6 P.M., boarded his car and was evidently thinking about something else as he did not get off until a block beyond where he should have stopped and was then struck by a car going in the opposite direction. Mr. Oggel was probably informed by the police and sent a telegram to his mother here in Orange City asking her to come at once, following the first message by another one Monday morning giving the sad news of his death. Mrs. Lenderink was greatly shocked. Her daughter Mamie, who was much attached to Henry, was visiting over Sunday at Ireton. She came home Monday only to hear the saddest news possible. Friends at once sent a cablegram to the father, H.J. Lenderink, who is secretary of the U.S. Legation at Santiago, Chile. The remains are expected by train from the east this evening.

Services will be held at the home at 1:30 tomorrow and at the American Reformed Church at 2 P.M., conducted by Reverend Winter. The Orange City band will attend in full uniform as a body guard of honor.

Young Lenderink left Orange City about three weeks ago for Chicago and took the examination for an electrician in the U.S. Navy. He was found under weight and easily secured employment in the big Siegel & Cooper Store where he had charge of the electric light decorations. Henry had made a special study of electricity and during his two years at the Ames State College acquired a great proficiency in that branch of engineering. He was modest, manly, bright, and diligent and had every promise of life before him.

His untimely death is a personal loss to almost every one in this, his home town, where all liked him for his quiet, manly ways. More can hardly be written. In formal words the Orange City Band have expressed the sympathy which each member feels for the stricken family.

Whereas: Divine Providence has removed from the Orange City Band, by death, Henry A. Lenderink, one of its esteemed and valued members, and

Whereas: We recognize this as a keen and irreparable loss; Therefore

Be it Resolved, That we extend to the family, in this their darkest hour, our most heartfelt sympathy, and direct that a copy of these resolutions be given to the mother of the deceased, a copy sent to the father, at San Diego, Chili, and that they be spread upon the minutes of this organization.