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Personal data Delia Wierda 

• She was born on September 25, 1914 in Zeeland, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten.
• She died on July 11, 2008 in Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, USA, she was 93 years old.

  Delia Wierda Franken
  BIRTH25 Sep 1914 Zeeland, Ottawa County, Michigan, USA
  DEATH11 Jul 2008 (aged 93) Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, USA
  BURIALMemory Gardens Sioux Center Cemetery, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, USA
  MEMORIAL ID83119574 · View Source
  
  Delia (Wierda) Franken, 93, of Sioux Center died Friday, July 11, at the Royale Meadows Care Center of Sioux Center.
  
  A memorial service was Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Central Reformed Church of Sioux Center with the Rev. R. Van Rathbun officiating. Interment was in Memory Gardens Cemetery of Sioux Center.
  
  Mrs. Franken was the daughter of Martin and Rena (Faber) Wierda. She was born September 25, 1914, at Zeeland, Michigan. Her family moved to Sioux Center in 1915.
  
  She graduated from Sioux Center High School in 1932 with a normal training teaching certificate. She earned a bachelors of arts (cum laude) at Westmar College in Le Mars and later her masters of arts in elementary education at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota.
  
  She married Henry A. Franken on July 8, 1942, at Sioux Center. She taught for 35 years which included Sioux County rural schools and Maurice schools. She ended her career in 1980 teaching third grade at Maurice-Orange City Elementary.
  
  She was a member of Central Reformed Church RCWM, Sioux Center Legion Auxiliary, Delta Kappa Gamma, and IRSPA. During former years she served as a Sunday school teacher, Girl Scout leader, president of the Legion Auxiliary and as a clerk for the U.S. Post Office from 1943-1950.
  
  Her hobbies were needlework, crossword puzzles, reading and various collectibles, with a special fondness for Hummel figurines and Hull pottery.
  
  She is survived by three daughters, Mary Swartout of Sioux City, Lois Madland and her husband Brian of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Ruth Van Buskirk and her husband Kelly of Sioux City; four grandchildren; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Reynold and Peg Wierda of Mesa, Arizona, and Marvin and Lorraine Wierda of Lincoln, Nebraska; sister and brother-in-law, Myrtle and Clarence Kiel of Orange City; sisters-in-law, Lucille Wierda of Orange City and Frieda Wierda of Sioux Center; brother-in-law, John G. A. Van Roekel of Sioux Center; and numerous nieces and nephews.
  
  She was preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, Henry A. Franken; an infant son, Dennis Franken; four brothers, George Bakker, Lewis Wierda, Thomas Wierda and Bernard Wierda; and three sisters, Henrietta Parsonson, Jane Eva Duits and Martha Van Roekel.
  
  Sioux Center News 2008-07-16.

• She is buried July 2008 in Memory Gardens Sioux Center Cemetery, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten.
• This information was last updated on August 22, 2018.

Household of Delia Wierda

She is married to Henry A. Franken.

They got married

Notes about Delia Wierda

D.v.

Martin Wierda
BIRTH10 Mar 1891 Zeeland, Ottawa County, Michigan, USA
DEATH29 Apr 1965 (aged 74) Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, USA
BURIALMemory Gardens Sioux Center Cemetery, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, USA
MEMORIAL ID83128926 · View Source

Ida M. De Lange Wierda
BIRTH12 Mar 1895 Ottawa County, Michigan, USA
DEATH21 Aug 1930 (aged 35) Ord, Valley County, Nebraska, USA
BURIALFairmount Cemetery, Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA
MEMORIAL ID83129091 · View Source

Funeral Services Are Held Monday for Martin Wierda Dies Thursday at Sioux Center Home.

Funeral services were held at the Central Reformed church here at 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 3, for Martin Wierda, Sr., 74, long-time Sioux Center resident and founder of the Wierda Decorative Service, who died at his home here Thursday afternoon after a brief illness.

Services were conducted by the Rev. Marion Klaaren and burial was made in the Sioux Center Community cemetery under the direction of Vander Ploeg Funeral Home.

A brief service attended by immediate members of the family was held at the Vander Ploeg Funeral chapel preceding the service at the church.

Pallbearers were Lewis Wierda, George Bakker, Thomas Wierda, Reynold Wierda, Marvin Wierda and Bernard Wierda.

Mr. Wierda was born in Zeeland, Mich., March 10, 1891, and moved to Sioux Center community when a young man.

He was married to Mrs. Rena Bakker on February 26, 1924, and the couple made their permanent home here. He had worked as a painter throughout his residence in Sioux Center and had been associated with several sons in the operation of Wierda Decorative Service.

Survivors besides his wife include 11 children: Lewis of Maurice, George Bakker of Sioux City, Delia (Mrs. Henry Franken) of Sioux Center, Henrietta (Mrs. William Parsonson) of Paramount, Calif., Thomas of Orange City, Martha (Mrs. John G. A. Van Roekel) of Sioux Center, Reynold of Sioux Center, Marvin of Sioux Center, Jane Duits) of Rock Valley, Bernard of Chicago and Myrtle (Mrs. Clarence Kiel) of Orange City.

Also surviving him are 34 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

Two sisters and five brothers preceded him in death.

Mr. Wierda had served as a deacon and elder for several terms in the Central Reformed church.

Sioux Center News 1965-05-06.

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