Kreykes, J.H. 1858-1915

KREYKES, WAANDERS

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:37

Source: Alton Democrat issue of 10 April 1915, Hospers column.

J.H. Kreykes, well known to most Hospers people, who had been a patient in a Sheldon hospital for the past ten weeks, finally gave up the brave struggle for life and passed away last Saturday. A complete obituary will be found in the Sheldon items. The family has met with much sorrow. Only two weeks ago they laid to rest their son, a promising youth, and now death called the father. The sorrowing widow and children have the sympathy of the entire Hospers community.
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Same issue, Sheldon items.

J.H. Kreykes succumbed to the inevitable on Saturday, at the Samaritan hospital of which institution he was an inmate for three months following an operation for relief from appendicitis. Mr. Kreykes was born in the year 1858, at Risen, Province of Risel, in the Netherlands, which was his home for a score of years, when emulating the example of many of his countrymen and women he emigrated to the "land of the free and the home of the brave" locating first in Michigan and later in the vicinity of Hospers. At the age of twenty-five he and Miss Magdalene Waanders were united in marriage. Nine children, William of Clear Lake, Minn., Richard of this locality, Gerrit, John, Edward and Magdalene, also of this vicinity. Mesdames Gerrit Boersma and Maurice Neiuwendorp of Sheldon, and Henry Rensink of Boyden. The deceased man and his family had resided successively in the Hospers, Newkirk and Sheldon vicinities. In the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends, Rev. Henry Vander Naald of the First Reformed church conducted solemn services at that house of worship on Tuesday afternoon, after which all that was mortal was consigned to "sleep the sleep that knows no waking," in East Lawn cemetery. The surviving wife and children are tendered the heartfelt sympathy of local residents in the untimely passing of the husband and father who was held in deservedly exalted esteem by the community in which he had spent so many of the years of his too brief lifetime.