Ronald VER STEEG

VER STEEG, VERSTEEG, KRAGT, MULDER, VAN VELDHUIZEN, DEGROOT, DEJAGER, VAN VELDHUIZEN, DEWILD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/2/2012 at 18:29:59

August 10, 1910 ---- December 30, 1988

ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa--Ronald Ver Steeg, 78, of Rock Rapids, died Friday, Dec. 30, 1988, at a Sioux Falls hospital. Services were held Monday at the First Reformed Church at Rock Rapids with the Rev. William DeYoung officiating. Burial was in the Riverview Cemetery in Rock Rapids. Roste Funeral Home of Rock Rapids was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Ver Steeg was born Aug. 10, 1910 at Andover, S.D. He married Tillie Kragt Jan. 31, 1934 at Hull, Iowa. They lived at Clarion for two years, then farmed near Hull, and in 1940 began farming in the Rock Rapids area. In 1974, they retired and moved into Rock Rapids. He was a board member for several farmers co-operatives and a member of the First Reformed Church in Rock Rapids for 49 years. Survivors include his wife; four sons, Bernard of George, Kenneth and Galen, both of Rock Rapids, and Dr. Eugene of Inwood; two daughters, Mrs. Harley (Harriet) Mulder of Littleton, Colo., and Mrs. Rev. Milo (Genevieve) Van Veldhuizen of Houghton, Mich.; 15 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; four sisters, Viola DeGroot and Burdella DeJager, both of Luverne, Minn., Margaret Van Veldhuizen of Worthington, Minn., and Elnora DeWild of Boyden, Iowa, and two brothers, Vernon and Norman, both of Luverne.

Sioux County Index -- Iowa
January 11, 1989