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JohnVanderWerff John
Vander Werff, 80, of 902 E. 16th St, died of cancer Wednesday, Dec. 26, at
Heritage Manor Center in Newton. Funeral
services were held today at Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton with the Rev.
Jill Flyr, pastor of Colfax United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be
at Sully Cemetery in Sully. Memorials
will be accepted the Killduff United Methodist Church or to Hospice of Jasper
County and may be left at the funeral home. The
son of Gerrit and Nellie Dunnick Vander Werff, he was born Dec.
24, 1915, in Reasnor. He attended Jasper County rural schools. He lived in rural
Killduff for 58 years and in Newton for two years. On Jan. 26, 1940, he married Grace A. Huyser in Sully.
Mr. Vander Werff was a farmer and a lifetime member of the Killduff
United Methodist Church and a member of Jasper County Farm Bureau. Survivors
include his wife, three sons and a daughter-in-law, Bryce and Charlotte of
Kellogg, and Lehrle and John, both of Des Moines, two daughters and a
son-in-law, Mary and Jim Regur of Newton and Carla of Kuwait, nine grand
children, 11 great-grandchildren, and four brothers and sisters-in-law, Dick and
Doris of Sully, Lawrence and Margaret of Reasnor, Marion and Helen of Indianola
and Gary and Joan of Des Moines. He
was preceded in death by his parents and a sister. Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, December 31, 2001. |
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