Genealogy Zwanepol » Matilda Violet (Till) Plender (1920-2007)

Personal data Matilda Violet (Till) Plender 

  • She was born on July 11, 1920 in Granville, Iowa, USA.
  • She died on October 5, 2007 in Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, USA, she was 87 years old.
    October 07, 2007 12:00 am
    ORANGE CITY, Iowa -- Mrs. Matilda Ter Horst, 87, of Orange City passed away Friday, Oct. 5, 2007, at Orange City Area Health System Long Term Care Facility. Services will be 1 p.m. Monday at First Reformed Church in Orange City, with the Revs. David Ter Beest and Perry De Groot officiating. Interment will be in West Lawn Cemetery at Orange City. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today, with the family present 4 to 6 p.m., at Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

    Matilda Viola was born on July 11, 1920, at Granville, Iowa, the daughter of Andrew and Minnie (Mouw) Plender. She was raised on a farm near Granville, where she attended a country school.

    In December 1946, she married Arie Bloemendaal in Orange City. They farmed two miles north of Alton, where she was a homemaker. In January 1967, they moved into Orange City. Arie passed away on Sept. 7, 1967, in Iowa City.

    In December 1972, "Till" married William John Ter Horst in Orange City. They made their home in Orange City, where she was a dishwasher at the Pantry Cafe and she did wallpaper hanging. "Bill" passed away on March 7, 1987, in Orange City. Later, she became a resident of Pioneer Memorial Home in Orange City. In August 2005, she transferred to the Long Term Care Facility.

    Mrs. Ter Horst was a member of First Reformed Church. In earlier years, she belonged to Second (Calvary) Christian Reformed Church in Orange City. She enjoyed playing cards, especially canasta, eating out and baking.

    Survivors include her four children and their spouses, Connie and Alden Menning of Orange City, Larry and Alice Bloemendaal of Alton, Iowa, Barbara and Elwin Top of Orange City, and Ardis and Brad Van Rooyen of Eldridge, Iowa; four stepchildren, Art Ter Horst and his wife, Lorna of Orange City, Margene and her husband, Bill Van Zanten, and Geri Kraai, all of Rock Valley, Iowa, and Stan and Dorothy Ter Horst of Sioux Falls, S.D.; 13 grandchildren; 13 stepgrandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; seven great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Bernice Faber and Ruth Vander Maaten, both of Orange City; and a sister-in-law, Arta Plender of Orange City.

    In addition to her parents and husbands, she was preceded in death by a daughter-in-law, Elsie Bloemendaal; a stepson-in-law, Don Kraai; two grandchildren, Lisa Bloemendaal and Daniel Van Rooyen; four sisters, Margaret De Haan, Wilhelmina Muilenburg, Henrietta Ter Horst and Arabella Kleinhesselink; two brothers, John and Henry Plender; and two sisters-in-law, Eva Oordt and Harriet Rens.

    You may express your sympathy at www.oolman.com.
  • She is buried October 2007 in West Lawn Cemetery, Orange City, Iowa, Verenigde Staten.
  • A child of Dries (Andrew) Plender and Wilhelmina (Minnie) Mouw
  • This information was last updated on April 30, 2018.

Household of Matilda Violet (Till) Plender

(1) She is married to Arie Bloemendaal.

They got married December 1946 at Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, USA, she was 26 years old.


(2) She is married to William (Bill) ter Horst.

They got married on December 1, 1972 at Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, USA, she was 52 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Matilda Violet (Till) Plender

Lammert Plender
1855-1952
Grietje Brummel
1857-1922
Hendrikus Mouw
1846-1916
Wilhelmyna Rouwenhorst
1850-1927

Matilda Violet (Till) Plender
1920-2007

(1) 1946

Arie Bloemendaal
1909-1967

(2) 1972

William (Bill) ter Horst
1910-1987


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Birthday July 11, 1920

  • The temperature on July 11, 1920 was between 13.6 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
    • January 7 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
    • January 28 » Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
    • February 24 » The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
    • March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
    • September 7 » Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.
    • November 12 » Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.

Day of marriage December 1, 1972

  • The temperature on December 1, 1972 was between 4.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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  • In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
    • February 3 » The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
    • February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
    • March 2 » The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
    • June 29 » The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
    • September 6 » Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
    • December 29 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.

Day of death October 5, 2007

  • The temperature on October 5, 2007 was between 4.1 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2007: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
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    • September 20 » Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
    • November 23 » MSExplorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.


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