Anna Margaret (VanDusseldorp) SEEBECK

SEEBECK, VANDUSSELDORP, FOLKERTS, MELOHN, GIFFORD, SCHRADER, ANDERSON, NELSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/14/2008 at 12:42:09

Anna Margaret Seebeck 69 years, 7 months and 9 days of age passed away Friday, August 2, 1985 at the Belmond Community Hospital in Belmond, IA. Anna, the daughter of Jake and Kate Folkerts VanDusseldorp, was born December 24, 1915 in Erin Township. She attended the Erin Township Country School. She was baptized in the Kanawha United Methodist Church and later made her profession of faith in the Kanawha Christian Reformed Church. Anna was united in marriage with Ben Seebeck on November 14, 1934 at the Christian Reformed Church Parsonage in Kanawha, IA. The couple made their home on a farm near Kanawha. She was a member of the Kanawha Christian Reformed Church and the Ladies Aid. Anna enjoyed working in her garden, with her flowers, fishing, embroidering, and crocheting.

She is survived by her husband Ben of Kanawha, IA; a daughter Connie and her husband Don Melohn of Fort Dodge, IA; two grandsons: Mark and Ronald Melohn. Two sisters: Marie and her husband Bill Gifford of Belmond, IA; and Hyla Schrader of Britt, IA; one sister-in-law: Mrs. Pete VanDusseldorp of Kanawha. IA; two aunts: Nellie and her husband Ed Anderson and Evelyn Nelson both of Kanawha, IA; and one uncle Leonard VanDusseldorp and his wife Lena of Thornton, IA; and many relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers: Harold in infancy and Pete VanDusseldorp; one brother-in-law Jack Schrader and a sister-in-law Mrs. Gladys Seebeck.

Source unknown, ca. August 1985