- Funeral Services Held Thursday For Mrs. Vander Linden
Funeral services were held at the First Reformed church Thursday afternoon for Mrs. William Vander Linden, 89, who died at the Sioux Center community hospital Monday evening following a lingering illness.
Rev. Harry Brower officiated at the service and burial took place at the local cemetery.
Mrs. Vander Linden was born June 10, 1866 in the Netherlands and was married there to William Vander Linden in 1883.
The couple came to the United States in 1913 with six of their nine children and settled in Sioux Center. Mr. Vander Linden died in 1939.
For the past three years Mrs. Vander Linden made her home with her daughter, Mrs. John Landegent of Rock Valley.
Survivors include daughters, Mrs. John Landegent, Mrs. Hendrika Gorselman of Boyden and Mrs. Maartje Van Bodegorn in the Netherlands, and six sons, Jake of Bellflower, Calif., Simon and Jacoben both in the Netherlands, Leendert of Hull, William of Sheldon and Dick of Rock Valley.
Also surviving are 47 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren. Two children died in infancy.
Rock Valley Bee 1956-02-02.
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