Final Rites Held Saturday for Mrs. John Visser
Funeral services were held at the First Christian Reformed church here at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 30, for Mrs. John Visser, 85, a resident at this area since 1907, who died at the Sioux Center Community hospital January 27.
Services were conducted by the Rev. B.J. Haan and burial was in the Sioux Center Community cemetery with Vander Ploeg's Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. A brief service for the family was held at the funeral home preceding the service at the church.
Mrs. Visser was born in The Netherlands September 13, 1874, and grew to womanhood here.
She came to the United States in 1907 and three years later was married to John Visser. The couple lived on a farm in the Middleburg area for a time, later farmed near Rock Valley and at Lebanon before ritering and moving into Sioux Center. Mr. Visser passed away July 20, 1926.
Survivors include four sons, Peter of Pocahontas, Thomas, who resided with his mother, Leonard and John of Sioux Center; a daughter, Mrs. Wally Schaap, of Sheldon; one brother, Lane De Stigter; two sisters Mrs. Nell Zwiep of Hull and Mrs. Marie De Lange of Redlands, Calif.; and 14 grandchildren.
One son, a sister, Mrs. Flora Wassink, and a step-daughter, Mrs. Anna Bratt, preceded her in death.
Sioux Center News 1960-02-04.
Final Rites Held Saturday for Mrs. John Visser
Funeral services were held at the First Christian Reformed church here at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 30, for Mrs. John Visser, 85, a resident at this area since 1907, who died at the Sioux Center Community hospital January 27.
Services were conducted by the Rev. B.J. Haan and burial was in the Sioux Center Community cemetery with Vander Ploeg's Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. A brief service for the family was held at the funeral home preceding the service at the church.
Mrs. Visser was born in The Netherlands September 13, 1874, and grew to womanhood here.
She came to the United States in 1907 and three years later was married to John Visser. The couple lived on a farm in the Middleburg area for a time, later farmed near Rock Valley and at Lebanon before ritering and moving into Sioux Center. Mr. Visser passed away July 20, 1926.
Survivors include four sons, Peter of Pocahontas, Thomas, who resided with his mother, Leonard and John of Sioux Center; a daughter, Mrs. Wally Schaap, of Sheldon; one brother, Lane De Stigter; two sisters Mrs. Nell Zwiep of Hull and Mrs. Marie De Lange of Redlands, Calif.; and 14 grandchildren.
One son, a sister, Mrs. Flora Wassink, and a step-daughter, Mrs. Anna Bratt, preceded her in death.
Sioux Center News 1960-02-04.
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