Voss, Arnold, 1899-1935

VOSS, ROZENBOOM, ROEDECKER, ROTHACHER, FRIETS

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:38

From the Alton Democrat, May 3, 1935:

DEATH CALLS ARNOLD VOSS
Young Maurice Business Man is Called Beyond

Arnold Voss, proprietor of the Voss café, died at the Sacred Heart hospital, LeMars, Friday morning following a three weeks illness due to an infection of the blood causing jaundice. Mr. Voss was born at LeMars February 14, 1899, but for the past twenty years had lived in this vicinity. He married Miss Martha Rozeboom of Maurice August 23, 1924, and managed a restaurant here since that time.

The funeral was held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home and 2 o’clock at the American Ref. church, Rev. Duiker officiating. Pallbearers were business men of the town, the honorary including J. E. Mieras, P. Van Peursem, L. C. Hansman, P. N. Vos, J. L. Mieras and T. Stellingwerf; the acting, H. Vander Well, H. H. De Groot, Andrew Vander Stoep, Chas. De Groot, K. Kamminga and R. Schat. A male quartet composed of Richard De Jong, Clifford Heusinkveld, Alvin Vander Stoep and Herman De Jong, accompanied by Miss Matilda DeGroot at the piano, sang appropriate hymns. The Wickert undertakers of the Co-Operative Burial association of Sioux Center had charge of funeral arrangements.

Surviving Mr. Voss are the widow and children, Robert, David and Mary Joan; three sisters, Alvira, Mrs. Will Scott, of Wentworth, S.D.; Pauline, Mrs. Roy Lund, and Viola, both of Chicago; a brother, Avalt and his father, Will Vos, both of LeMars; and his mother, of Rochester, Minn.

Sincere sympathy is extended the bereaved as was shown by the many beautiful bouquets sent by individuals and groups.

(A similar obituary was also published in the Ireton Ledger, May 2, 1935.)

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From the Hawarden Independent, May 2, 1935, Ireton news:

Death of Former Ireton Resident

Arnold Voss of Maurice, who at one time lived in Ireton, passed away last Friday in the Sacred Heart hospital in LeMars. He was removed to the hospital about ten days previous to his death, suffering from a complication of diseases following an attack of jaundice. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the First Reformed church at Maurice with Rev. J. Duyker in charge. Interment was made at Maurice.

Arnold Voss was born in LeMars Feb. 14, 1899, and so was some past 36 years of age at the time of his death. Before going to Maurice he lived in Ireton but for the past fifteen years he had resided at Maurice where of late he was engaged in the restaurant business. In his earlier youth he was a semi-professional baseball player and was well known in athletic circles in northwest Iowa. He was united in marriage with Martha Rozenboom of Maurice in August, 1924.

He leaves to mourn his untimely death his wife and three children, Robert, David and Mary Joan. He is also survived by his parents, Wm. Voss of LeMars and Mrs. Voss of Anoka, Minn.; two brothers and three sisters, Arthur Voss, who is in the west at present, Avolt Voss of LeMars, Mrs. Geo. Scott of Madison, S.D., Mrs. Roy Lund and Miss Viola Voss of Chicago.

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RESEARCH NOTES

There are two entries for him in the Sioux County Cemetery Index: Voss, Arnold, b. 1899, d. 1935, Sherman Twp Cemetery, Maurice IA (WPA Index); and a second one with his surname spelled Vos. FindaGrave.com has a photo of his headstone, surname spelled Voss.

His death certificate gives his birth date as Feb. 14, 1901; parents Wm Voss, born in Germany, and Lena Voss, born in Switzerland; died at 7:56 a.m. April 26, 1935; cause of death, septicopyemia [septicemia accompanied by multiple abscesses].

His marriage certificate gives his occupation as “business,” his parents as William Voss and Lena Roedecker, Martha’s parents as Edward Rozenboom and Clara Ida Marie Royen; married at Maurice, August 23, 1934.

His FindaGrave.com page gives his full name as Arnold William Vos (although his headstone has just Arnold Voss); parents William Otto Voss (1870-1947) and Lena Rothacher Voss (1875-1947), wife Martha Rozenboom Friets (1905-1972).

His World War I draft registration card (Sept. 1918) gives his birth date as Feb. 15, 1900; home address 709 Madison, LeMars; present occupation, “In State Training School for Boys, Eldora”; nearest relative, William Voss, 709 Madison, LeMars; tall, medium build, blue eyes, light brown hair. (The state training school is explained in a news note in the Hawarden Independent, June 14, 1917: Arnold Voss, a 17-year-old LeMars boy, has been committed to the industrial school at Eldora as the immediate result of stealing some hams and some money from Robert Schultz at that place. The boy has been in several prior pilfering scrapes. He was only recently released from the state asylum at Cherokee where he was committed a year ago after acting queerly, supposedly as the result of a sunstroke received while working on a farm in South Dakota last year.)