VandeVegte, Henrietta (Miss), 1920-1936

VANDEVEGTE, VELDHUIZEN

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:32

From the Rock Valley Bee, August 14, 1936:

Death of Henrietta Vande Vegte

Henrietta Vande Vegte, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Vande Vegte, passed away at the home of her parents in Rock Valley, Monday August 10, following an illness of about a week, although she had never been very strong.

She was born in Rock Valley, on September 12, 1920, and lived here all her life.

She leaves to mourn, her parents, and three sisters, Anna, Cornelia and Bertha, and one brother, Peter, all at home.

Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Aberson, of the First Reformed church of Rock Valley, and the remains were taken to Valley View Cemetery.

The bereaved family have the sympathy of many friends in their sorrow.

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RESEARCH NOTES

A brief obituary in De Volksvriend adds that due to her illness she had been cared for at home by her parents. The 1930 U.S. census shows her able to read and write, but unlike her siblings was not attending school.

The Sioux County Cemetery Index has Vande Vegte, Henrietta, b. 1920, d. 1938 [apparently a typo], Valley View Cemetery, Rock Valley IA.

Her death certificate gives birth date Sept. 12, 1920 in Rock Valley; parents Peter Vande Vegte and Martha Veldhuizen, both born in the Netherlands; died at 5:30 a.m. August 10, 1936. “She had been an idiot since a baby, started vomiting about a week ago. I was called after death. No diagnosis made.”