Genealogy Jan van de Wege and Janna Dekkers » Elmer van de Wege (1917-1998)

Personal data Elmer van de Wege 

  • He was born on February 25, 1917 in Prairie View.
  • He died on March 7, 1998 in Logan, he was 81 years old.
    VAN DE WEGE, ELMER MARTENUS

    Elmer Martenus Van De Wege was born May 25, 1917 to Tenus and Stevanna (VanRoekel) Van De Wege at Prairie View and died March 7, 1998 at the Logan Manor, Logan at the age of 80.

    Elmer attended school in Prairie View. He moved to Denver, Colo. After high school and worked for Gates Rubber Company for 11 years, including four years Army time. During his four years in the service, he was in the European Theater of WWII in a tank of the 11th Armored Division of Patton’s Third Army. He returned to Denver in 1946 and worked at Gates Rubber Company two years.

    On July 2, 1946, Elmer married Ida Ten Hulzen of Firth, Neb. They established a home in Denver and were partners in a dairy, processing and delivering milk. In 1954, they moved to a farm near Almena where they farmed and ran a dairy. They discontinued the dairy in 1959 when Elmer became a rural mail carrier. In 1970, Elmer became the U.S. Postmaster in Prairie View. He retired on May 14, 1982, They continued to live on the farm, but traveled extensively. October, 1997, they moved to the Logan Manor, Logan.

    Elmer had served on the school board of the Almena Schools. He was deacon and elder of the Prairie View Reformed Church, Prairie View.
    Survivors include his wife, Ida, Logan; one daughter, one son; one brother, Anthony, Denver, Colo.; one sister, Irma Roos, Sun City, Ariz.; and two granddaughters.

    Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 11 at 10:30 a.m. in the Prairie View Reformed Church with Rev. Paul Copeland officiating.
    (Phillips County Kansas Review, March 19, 1998, submitted by Don Hansen).
  • A child of Martinus van de Wege and Stevanna van Roekel
  • This information was last updated on February 10, 2018.

Household of Elmer van de Wege

He is married to Ida Mae Tenhulzen.

They got married on July 2, 1946, he was 29 years old.


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    Historical events

    Birthday February 25, 1917

    Day of marriage July 2, 1946

    Day of death March 7, 1998

    • The temperature on March 7, 1998 was between 7.5 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 17.6 mm of rain during 10.2 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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    • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
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