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Nickolas / Nick Vander Ploeg

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Birthplace: Sioux Center, Sioux County, IA, United States
Death: December 17, 1965 (81)
Sioux Center, Sioux County, IA, United States
Place of Burial: Sioux Center, Sioux County, IA, United States
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Son of Tjasse Vander Ploeg and Takje Valk
Husband of Ella Vande Berg
Father of Theodore Vander Ploeg; Private; Private; Private and Private
Brother of Minnie Vander Ploeg; Winnie Huitink; Cennie Vander Ploeg; Allie Vander Ploeg; Charles Vander Ploeg and 5 others

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About Nickolas / Nick Vander Ploeg

Funeral services were held at the First Reformed church here at 1:30 p.m. Monday, December 20, for Nick Vander Ploeg, 81, retired farmer and a life-long resident of Sioux Center vicinity, who died at the Sioux Center Community hospital early Friday morning following a brief illness.

Services were conducted by the Rev. John Roggen and burial was made in the Sioux Center Community cemetery under the direction of Vander Ploeg's Funeral Home.

Mr. Vander Ploeg was born in Sioux Center September 22, 1884. He was married to Ella Vande Berg February 23, 1910, and to this union were born four sons and one daughter, all of whom survive him. Mrs. Vander Ploeg preceded him in death on January 7, 1956. The five children are Theodore, Lawrence, Donald, the Rev. Elmer Vander Ploeg, and Theresa, at home.

Other survivor's include 15 grandchildren; one great grandchild, and the following brothers and sisters; Mrs. John Rozeboom of Steen, Minn., Charles Vander Ploeg of Orange City, Mrs. Gerrit Huitink of Orange City, John of Yucipa, Cal., Mrs. Rev. Ray Lubbers of Orange City, Mrs. Dick Raak and Mrs. Tunis Den Herder of Sioux Center. Two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death - William who passed away December 21, 1944, and a brother who died in infancy; Mrs. Henry Van Roekel, who died December 15, 1965, and another sister Fannie, who died as a young girl.

Mr. Vander Ploeg had served as an elder in the Carmel Reformed church for many years and was also an elder of the First Reformed church.

Pallbearers were Henry Vander Ploeg, Glen Den Herder, Dennis Raak, Henry Huitink, Neal Van Roekel, Bert Rozeboom.

-Obituary from The Sioux Center News (12/23/1965)

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Nickolas / Nick Vander Ploeg's Timeline

1884
September 22, 1884
Sioux Center, Sioux County, IA, United States
1914
December 20, 1914
1965
December 17, 1965
Age 81
Sioux Center, Sioux County, IA, United States
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Memory Gardens Cemetery, Sioux Center, Sioux County, IA, United States