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She is married to Frederick Walbaum.

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Diane Evelyn Riekena

Sources: Author: Schneider, Kent, Title: "Diane Evelyn Riekena Walbaum," (Publication location: Wellsburg, IA, Publisher: Find-a-Grave, Publication date: xxvii Mar MMVIII), Repository: The Cloud

Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25572537/diane-evelyn-walbaum

"Photo[graph of her stone] added by Gerhardt Leffler

Diane Evelyn Riekena Walbaum Birth 2 Jan 1917 Shiloh Township, Grundy County, Iowa, USA Death 17 May 2007 (aged 90) Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa, USA Burial Shiloh Cemetery Wellsburg, Grundy County, Iowa, USA Plot Lot 20, Grave 23 Memorial ID 25572537

Diane Evelyn Walbaum, 90, of Grundy Center died May 17, 2007 at the Grundy Care Center in Grundy Center. After cremation graveside service was at Shiloh Cemetery in Wellsburg on May 22. Memorials may be directed to Diane's family, the American Lutheran Church, the Cedar Valley Hospice, or to the Grundy Care Center.
Diane was born January 2, 1917 west of Wellsburg on the home farm. She was the daughter of Evert J. and Mary (Ross) Riekena. Diane attended country school a few yards east of the farm home and graduated from Wellsburg High School in 1933. Diane was a founding member of the American Lutheran Church in Grundy Center where she taught Sunday school and was a member of the women's group. Diane was very devoted to her church and her family.Her survivors include a daughter, Jacquelyn and her husband Jack Samo of Grundy Center; a son, Eldon and his wife Sharon Walbaum of Dows; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.She was preceded in death by her father in 1952; her mother in 1966; two brothers, John Riekena in 1975 and Emery Riekena in 1963; and a sister, Jeanette Tack in 2003.--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 24 May 2007, pg 3

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Parents
Evert J. Riekena 1883-1952
Mary Jibbe Ross Riekena 1887-1966

Siblings

John Evert Riekena 1910-1975 (m. 1934)
Jeanette Riekema Tack 1912-2003
Emery Eugene Riekena 1914-1963 (m. 1937)

Inscription LOVING MOTHER OF JACKIE AND ELDON THIS IS MY FATHER'S WORLD

Maintained by: Find a Grave Originally Created by: Kent Schneider Added: 27 Mar 2008 Find a Grave Memorial 25572537"
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    Birthday January 2, 1917

    • The temperature on January 2, 1917 was between 6.4 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
      • January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
      • February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
      • March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
      • July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
      • October 4 » World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
      • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.

    Day of death May 17, 2007

    • The temperature on May 17, 2007 was between 6.3 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
    • 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.
      • January 1 » Adam Air Flight 574 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes near the Makassar Strait, Indonesia killing all 102 people on board.
      • February 27 » The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
      • March 1 » Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
      • April 25 » Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
      • April 27 » Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
      • September 10 » Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
    

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