Eula Angeline (Veenstra) TRAMPEL

TRAMPEL, VEENSTRA, BUSSE, YOUNGBLOOD, SPALLA, FARRIS, LARSON, ENESS, ALEXANDER, MICHAEL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/13/2010 at 13:56:41

Ames Tribune, Ames, Iowa
February 12, 2010

August 21, 1917 - February 12, 2010

Eula A. Trampel, 92, slipped peacefully into the arms of her Savior Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, at the Greenhills Health Care Center in Ames. A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, at the First Reformed Church in Meservey, with the Reverend Rodney Meester officiating. Burial will be in the Meservey Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the service Tuesday at the church.

Eula Angeline Trampel, the daughter of Albert and Augusta Veenstra, was born on Aug. 21, 1917, near Cold Springs, Minn. Her father died during the 1918 influenza epidemic and her mother subsequently married Henry Busse, and the new family moved to a farm near Goodell. Eula graduated with a teaching degree from Waldorf College in Forest City and taught in a one-room country school before her marriage to Harmen Trampel April 5, 1942, at the Immanuel Reformed United Church of Christ in Klemme. Harmen was drafted into the United States Army in 1942 and served during World War II, and Eula lived with her husband at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., San Antonio, Texas, and Brownsville, Texas. After Harmen’s honorable discharge, he and Eula moved to a farm southeast of Swaledale, and in 1947 moved to their farm east of Meservey. They farmed together until they retired and moved to Belmond in 1991. For the last three years of her life, Eula lived in Ames. Eula was a member of the First Reformed Church in Meservey for more than 50 years and enjoyed participating in the Reformed Church Women’s Ministry.

Those thankful for sharing her life are her sons, Larry Trampel and his wife, Bonnie, of Albert Lea, Minn., and Darrell Trampel and his wife, Christine, of Ames; daughters, Janice Youngblood, of Ankeny, and Linda Spalla, of Mason City; grandchildren, Carol Farris, Roger Trampel, Barbara Larson, Christopher Trampel, Rebecca Eness, Alexander Youngblood, Jennifer Alexander and Sara Spalla; seven great-grandchildren; and her sisters, Margaret Michael, of Dyersville, and Mildred Busse, of Carol Stream, Ill. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and infant grand-daughter. Adams Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Ames is in charge of arrangements.