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Mellema, Johanna "Jo" (Mrs. Peter D.) 1910-2000

MELLEMA, SCHENK, SANDBULTE

Posted By: Mary Lou Verburg Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/11/2015 at 12:46:30

Born: November 12, 1910 Carmel, Iowa
Died: September 6, 2000 Rock Rapids, Iowa

Johanna "Jo" Hermina Mellema 89, of Rock Rapids died of cancer Wed. Sept. 6, 2000 at her residence.

Services will be 2 p.m. Sat. at First Reformed Church in Rock Rapids, with the Rev. Dan Haggar officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. Roste Funeral Home of Rock Rapids is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Mellema was born Nov. 12, 1910 in Carmel, IA. the daughter of Cornelius and Minnie (Sandbulte) Schenk. She moved with her family to a farm near Rock Rapids as a child. The family later moved to Hull and Sioux Center, IA. before settling near Doon, IA. She was raised and attended school in Doon.

She married Peter D. Mellema on Nov. 6, 1931 in Doon. The couple farmed near Doon for a year before moving to a farm near Rock Rapids. Her husband died Oct. 14, 1977. She continued to live on the farm for one year, before moving into Rock Rapids.

She was a member of First Reformed Church, Reformed Church Women's Ministries and Dorcas Circle. She enjoyed gardening and sewing.

Survivors include two sons and their wives, Dewey and Joyce, Ken and Marlene, all of Rock Rapids; four grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and two brothers and their wives; John and Jan Schenk and Delmar and Marlys Schenk, all of Bellflower, CA.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Henry Schenk; a sister, Nellie Gras; and a grandson, Perry Mellema.

Source: Sioux City Journal 9/7/2000


 

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