JOHN DRAAYER
Funeral services for John Draayer, 79, were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ireton Christian Reformed Church. The Rev. William Rubingh officiated. Burial was in the Orange City, Iowa Cemetery under the direction of Van Etten Funeral Home of Orange City.
Mr. Draayer died Wednesday at a Sioux Center, Iowa, hospital after a two-week illness.
He was born Oct. 16, 1886, at Heerde, The Netherlands, and came to the United States two years later with his family.
In 1914 he married Mrs. Rena Nyhof. The couple farmed near Sioux Center until moving to Ireton in 1919. Mrs. Draayer died in 1957.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Herman Vollink of Ireton; two stepsons, the Rev. Henry Nyhof in South Dakota, and Gerrit Nyhof of Sioux Center; a stepdaughter, Rena Nyhof of Ireton; five brothers, Bert of Hollandale, Minn., Albert of Los Angeles, Calif., Gerret of Sioux Center and Chris and Henry , both of Ireton; a sister, Sam Wynia of Sioux Center; 17 grandchildren; and 13 great grandchildren.
Sioux Center News 1966-07-14.
JOHN DRAAYER
Funeral services for John Draayer, 79, were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ireton Christian Reformed Church. The Rev. William Rubingh officiated. Burial was in the Orange City, Iowa Cemetery under the direction of Van Etten Funeral Home of Orange City.
Mr. Draayer died Wednesday at a Sioux Center, Iowa, hospital after a two-week illness.
He was born Oct. 16, 1886, at Heerde, The Netherlands, and came to the United States two years later with his family.
In 1914 he married Mrs. Rena Nyhof. The couple farmed near Sioux Center until moving to Ireton in 1919. Mrs. Draayer died in 1957.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Herman Vollink of Ireton; two stepsons, the Rev. Henry Nyhof in South Dakota, and Gerrit Nyhof of Sioux Center; a stepdaughter, Rena Nyhof of Ireton; five brothers, Bert of Hollandale, Minn., Albert of Los Angeles, Calif., Gerret of Sioux Center and Chris and Henry , both of Ireton; a sister, Sam Wynia of Sioux Center; 17 grandchildren; and 13 great grandchildren.
Sioux Center News 1966-07-14.
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