Hinderene Grace (Mennenga) VAN RADEN

VAN RADEN, OOSTER, MENNENGA, KEELING, ANDERSON, FOLKERTS, HEEREN, MEYER, BALES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/10/2010 at 14:40:34

January 7, 2010
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa

ALLISON, IA - Hinderene Grace Van Raden, 80, of Allison, died Wednesday, Jan. 6, at Kavanagh House, Des Moines. She was born Aug. 26, 1929, near Shell Rock, daughter of Jerry and Ella Ooster Mennenga. On Oct. 24, 1948, she married Leslie Thomas Van Raden at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Waverly. He died in 1994. Mrs. Van Raden graduated from Shell Rock Public School in 1946 and in the fall of 1946 began teaching at a rural school in Jackson Township. Later she attended the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. She taught in Clarion, and taught 19 years in the elementary grades for the Allison-Bristow Public Schools. She was a member of the Allison Women’s Club, a trustee of Allison Public Library, and a member of the Reformed Church Women’s Ministries. She also was the creator of the Iowa slogan “Fields of Opportunity.”

Survived by: two daughters, Joyce Keeling of Rowan and Debra (David) Anderson of Indianola; a son, Rodney (Teresa) of Indianola; six grandchildren, Chadley (Jan) Keeling, Robby (Carisa) Keeling, Sarah, Rachel and Emily Van Raden, and Samuel Anderson; five great-grandchildren, Adam, Katelyn, Allison, Ava and Blake Keeling; two brothers, Richard and Henry “Bud” Mennenga; and three sisters, Jean Folkerts, Marie Heeren and Pauline Meyer. Preceded in death by: a sister, Elizabeth Bales; a son, Daryl; and son-in-law, Verlyn Keeling.

Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Reformed Church, Allison, with burial in Allison Cemetery. Public visitation from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Sietsema-Vogel Funeral Home, Allison. Memorials: may be directed to the family, Allison Public Library or the church.