Lammers, William A., 1867-1939

LAMMERS, BEYERS, KUYPER, KUIPERS, TEGROTENHUIS

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/16/2021 at 18:35:51

From the Sioux Center News, August 3, 1939:

Former Sioux Center Tailor Passed Away in Washington.

Word was received here that William A. Lammers passed away in Yakima, Washington last Thursday at 6 P.M. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, Alice and Betty Ann. Full details about the funeral have not been received here yet but friends believed the body would be interred in Linden, Washington, where they have been making their home.

Mr. Lammers was a business man in Sioux Center for many years before he retired for his health seven years ago, and moved to Linden, Washington. He was 72 years old at the time of his passing. Mr. Lammers arrived from the Netherlands during the 90’s and first worked as a tailor in LeMars. After a few years he came to Sioux Center and had a tailorshop in the Hyink and Balkema store, then a for time he tailored for the Pete Schoep clothing store, and then went into a business partnership with VanderHoop and Frantsen. Because of his wife's health he disposed of this business and lived for some time in Idaho and Colorado. Mrs. Lammers, nee Eva Beyers, failed to improve and died shortly after returning here.

For many years, until he retired, Mr. Lammers was in a tailoring business with Mr. Overman. He later married Miss Maggie Kuyper of Muskegon and retired about seven years ago.

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From the Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), July 29, 1939:

W. A. LAMMERS

YAKIMA, July 28.—The body of William Arnold Lammers, 71, who died at the home of friends in Moxee early today, will be sent to Linden for services and burial. Lammers came to the valley three weeks ago for his health. He is survived by his widow, Maggie, and two daughters in Linden. He was born in Holland.

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RESEARCH NOTES

A brief note on his death in the Sioux County Capital (Aug. 3) says he died after a six weeks illness with bronchial trouble, and that his daughter, Miss Alice Lammers, lives in Milwaukee. De Volksvriend (Aug. 10), Yakima news, also gives this information.

The Washington Death Records (Index) on Ancestry.com gives his death date as 27 July 1939, Yakima County.

His FindaGrave.com page has William Arnold Lammers, born 28 Sep 1867 in De Heurne, Aalten Municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands; died 27 July 1939 in Yakima, Yakima County, Washington, buried in Monumenta Cemetery, Lynden, Whatcom County, Washington. No family information. There is a photo of his headstone, which gives his birth year as 1868.

WieWasWie.nl has a birth index record for Willem Arnoldus Lammers; father Wessel Lammers, age 44, a farmer; mother Aaltjen te Grotenhuis; born 28 September 1867 in DeHeurne (Aalten).

Robert P. Swierenga, Dutch Immigrants in New York Passenger Lists, has an entry for Willem Lammers, age 26, arriving in New York on the ship P. Caland on 5 Oct 1893, destination Sioux Center.

He was not readily located in the 1900 and 1910 censuses.

The 1920 U.S. census for Sioux Center shows William A. Lammers (52, widowed) and his daughter Alice A. (11) boarding in the home of Gerrit Klein (47, widowed) and his three daughters. Lammers is a tailor, own shop, immigrated in 1893, naturalized in 1906.

The 1930 census for Sioux Center shows William Lammers, age 62, born in Holland, immigrated 1896, naturalized, a tailor, men’s suits; wife Maggie (47), born in Michigan; daughter Bettie A. (6/12), born in Iowa.

The Sioux County marriage register for 1906/1907 has groom Wm. Lammers, age 39, resident of Sioux Center, a tailor, birth and parents as above, first marriage; bride Eva Beyer, age 24, resident of Orange City, born there, parents Gt. Beyer and Jeune[?] Van de Steeg; married in Orange City Nov. 8, 1906. Eva's obituary (posted separately) shows her to have died of tuberculosis in 1911, leaving one daughter, Alice.

The marriage return for his marriage to Maggie has groom William Arnoldus Lammers, age 59, resident of Sioux Center, a tailor, born in Gelderland, Netherlands, parents Wessel Lammers and Aaltje te Grotenhuis, second marriage; bride Maggie Kuipers, age 44, resident of Muskegon, Michigan, born there, parents Jacob Kuipers and Elizabeth Balk, first marriage; married at Sioux Center June 22, 1926.