Dagel, Eunice (Mrs. LeRoy) 1929-2024

DAGEL, BROUWER, EVINK

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/6/2024 at 14:48:17

Mrs. Eunice Dagel, age 94, of Orange City, passed away on Sunday, February 4, 2024, at the Happy Siesta Care Center in Remsen.

A visitation with the family present will be held on Thursday, February 8, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. There will be a funeral service on Friday, February 9, at 1:00pm, at the funeral home with the Rev. Ben Vos officiating. Interment will follow the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City.

A recording will be available following the service.

Eunice was born on December 5, 1929, on a farm near Sheldon, the youngest of 10 children, three boys and seven girls, born to Raymond and Eunice (Brouwer) Evink. She was raised in the Boyden and Sheldon area and attended Country School Floyd #6. As a teen, she worked for area ministers, laundering and pressing their shirts. She also worked at the Well’s Dry Cleaners in Sheldon for three years. She attended the First Christian Reformed Church in Sheldon, and at a young age made her profession of faith.

On April 5, 1951, she was united in marriage to Merle LeRoy Dagel, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They were married more than 56 years when Merle passed on January 16, 2008. They first farmed at Slayton, Minnesota for a year before moving to a farm near Sanborn. Most of their married life they farmed southeast of Sibley, where they raised their family. Those same years, she worked at AMPI Creamery and Weldon’s Dry Milk. She also worked at Chase Bag Company in Sibley for over fifteen years.

Eunice and Merle were members of the First Reformed Church in Sibley, where she taught fifth grade Sunday School classes each week for nineteen years. They moved to Orange City in 1987, to be closer to their children, and became members of the Trinity Reformed Church, and she attended Ladies Circle meet and weekly Coffee Break Bible Study at Calvary Christian Reformed Church. She was employed at the Pioneer Memorial Home for thirteen years and she and her daughter taught Girl Scouts in Orange City for two years.

She enjoyed reading, sewing, making and donating baby quilts for charity in her spare time, but mostly enjoyed spending time with her family and grandchildren. She loved taking care of her great-grandchildren, who called her place a second home. She had such a gift with children and made the BEST chocolate chip cookies!

Survivors include her children, Randall Dagel, of Portland, Oregon; Glenda, and her husband, Paul Homan, of Le Mars; Dianne, and her husband, Michael Roeder, of Maurice; and Douglas Dagel, of Orange City; sixteen grandchildren, Jon, Heather, Travis, Kellie, Miranda, Kendra, Brandon, Kelsey, Austin, Katrina, Tristen, Brandi, Kourtney, Elizabeth, and Kimberly; 23 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; a brother-in-law, Edward Dagel, of Sibley; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Merle Dagel, Jr.; a grandson, SSgt Shawn Roeder; six sisters, Angeline Vander Wolde, Jeanette Mastbergen, Marie Mastbergen, Alice Van Kekerix, Johanna Wagenaar, and Henrietta Evink; and three brothers, Tony Evink, Jake Evink, and Wilbert Evink.

Memorials will be given to the Happy Siesta Care Center in Remsen.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.