VanderLaan, Grietje (Mrs. Chris), 1870-1929

VANDERLAAN, TOERING, YALEN

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:35

From the Rock Valley Bee, March 29, 1929:

Ben Vander Laan and family went to Hull Tuesday to attend the funeral services of Mrs. C. Vander Laan who died Saturday [March 23]. She had not been well for over a year but was not seriously ill until about three weeks before her death. She would have been sixty years old in April. She leaves her husband and one son, Herman, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. The Chris Vander Laan family was well known in Rock Valley, having visited here frequently. They lived a mile west of Hull.

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From the Sioux County Index (Hull), March 29, 1929:

MRS. VAN DER LAAN DIES

Friends and neighbors alike were surprised and shocked, last Saturday afternoon, to hear of the death of Mrs. Chris. VanderLaan at her home in the west part of Hull, following a short illness of heart trouble. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon from the First Reformed church, Rev. Douwstra officiating, and the remains were laid to rest in Hope Cemetery.

Mrs. VanderLaan was a wonderful neighbor and friend and a loving wife and mother and has left a vacant place in the hearts of all. The Index wishes to join in the sincere sympathy being extended to the surviving husband and son.

OBITUARY

Grietje Toering was born April 23, 1870, at Workum, Friesland, Netherlands, being nearly fifty-nine years of age at the time of her death. She came to America in 1889 settling at Rock Valley, where in 1891 she was united in marriage to Mr. Chris. VanderLaan. They resided in Rock Valley until 1905 when the family moved to Hull where she resided until her death.

Besides the bereaved husband, she is survived by one son, Herman, of Omaha, one brother, Mr. Herman Toering, of Orange City, who is sojourning in California and could not be present at the funeral, and two sisters, Mrs. J. Koch, still in the Netherlands, and Mrs. Frank DeHans, of Whitensville, Massachusetts, who was also unable to be present.

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Her death certificate adds her parents, Herman Toering and Jonkeje Yalen; died in the Hull Hospital at 12:50 p.m. March 23, 1929, of a cerebral hemorrhage, duration 1 day; contributory cause, chronic glom[erule?] nephritis and hypertension, duration 5 years.