Pas, Maaike "Maggie" (Mrs. John Sr.) 1822-1899

PAS, KLEIJN, VERHOEF

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-volunteer
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:32

Source: Sioux County Herald (2-22-1899)

Born: November 16, 1822
Died: February 18, 1899

DEATH OF MRS. JOHN PAS

Mrs. Maaike "Maggie" (Kleijn) Pas died at the home of her son, Gerrit, last Saturday in her 77th year and was buried Monday from the First Reformed Church. Reverend Kolyn spoke comfortingly to the children, grand-children and the many friends present, from Paul's words to the Corinthians: "For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

Mrs. Pas was twice married. First with Herman Verhoef, with whom she immigrated from the Netherlands to Pella, Iowa, in 1854. Three years after that, in 1857, her husband died leaving her a widow, which she remained for six years. In 1863 she married John Pas, with whom she was privileged to live for the period of nearly thirty-four years.

Mrs. Pas, since the death of her second husband in 1897, suffered from sickness off and on considerably, and although comfortably housed with her son, Gerrit, who together with his wife, and her other children kindly provided for her every want, yet it was her constant desire, while she highly appreciated the care and attention of loving ones, to go home, her final home of rest in the mansions above.

Mrs. Pas leave one brother, Johannis Klyn, who lives near Sioux Center, and one sister, Mrs. W. Verhoef, who resides in or near Boyden. She had in all eight children, four of her first marriage are dead, three of them died when very young, and the other, Mrs. Druivenstein, who died but a few years ago, leaving now four children. Three, Mrs. Arie Versteeg, Mrs. John Den Hartog and Govert Verhoef of the first and Gerrit Pas of the second marriage, besides several grand-children to mourn the loss of a good Christian mother and grand-mother.

A mother who knew because she knew her Lord and Savior, that "It was not death to die, to leave this weary road, and midst the brotherhood on high, to be at home with God."