Veencamp, Winnie Mrs. Paul 1897-1986

VEENCAMP, SCHREURS, DEGROOT

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 10/21/2011 at 05:31:15

WINNIE VEENCAMP
Born:: November 20. 1897, Orange City, Iowa
Died: November 25, 1986, Sioux Center. Iowa
Services at the Vander Ploeg Chapel at 1:30 P.M. on Friday. November 28. 1986
Burial in The Memory Gardens Cemetery, Sioux Center. Iowa on Friday, November 28, 1986.
Mrs. Winnie Veencamp, age eighty-nine, passed away at the Sioux Center Community Nursing Wing on November 25, 1986.
Willempje (Winnie) was born on November 20, 1897 to Johan and Gijsbertje Schreurs in Orange City, Iowa. She was orphaned at an early age and was adopted by the John De Groot family of Sioux Center. She married Paul Veencamp on June 4, 1920 in Sioux Center and lived the rest of her life there. Mr. Veencamp died November 8, 1965. She became a resident of the Nursing Wing in 1974. She was a lifelong member of Central Reformed Church. She loved to garden, and friends and neighbors may remember her lovely flower garden.
Survivors include her son John Conrad of Cherokee, Iowa; her daughter Carol, Mrs. Norm Bastemeyer of Des Moines, Iowa; seven grandchildren: five great-grandchildren; two sisters, Jessie Blake of Hawaii; Gertrude M. De Groot of Sioux Center: and one brother, Nick Dykstra of Sibley.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her son Willard John of Owatonna, Minnesota and one sister Sue, Mrs. William Hyink of Torrance, California.
Source; Vander Ploeg’s Funeral Home, Sioux Center, Ia., obit