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Household of Melvin Ernest Schoffelman

He is married to Aldora Mammenga.

They got married on June 22, 1948 at fortasse, somewhere, Verenigde Staten, he was 22 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)
  2. Robin Lynn Schoffelman  1961-2009 


Notes about Melvin Ernest Schoffelman

Melvin Ernest Schoffelman

Source: Author: Hammerstrom, Gene, Title: "Melvin Ernest Schoffelman," (Publication location: Hartford, SD, Publisher: Find-a-Grave, Publication date: xxvi Dec MMXI), Repository: The Cloud

Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82423871/melvin-ernest-schoffelman

"Photo [of a man] added by Alvin Straatmeyer

Melvin Ernest Schoffelman Birth 23 Sep 1925 Tea, Lincoln County, South Dakota, USA Death 25 Dec 2011 (aged 86) Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA Burial Hartford Cemetery Hartford, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA Memorial ID 82423871

[photo of a man] Added by: Alvin Straatmeyer on 31 May 2012
[photo of a man] Added by: Alvin Straatmeyer on 31 May 2012
[photo of a man] Added by: Gene Hammerstrom on 26 Dec 2011
[photo of stone shared with Aldora Schoffelman] Added by: Alvin Straatmeyer on 31 May 2012

Melvin was born on a farm near Tea, SD on September 23, 1925 to Will A and Bena G (Statmeyer) Schoffelman. Melvin attended the Schoffelman School through the 8th grade. He worked for Jerry Leonard Motors in Lennox and farmed with his father.

He was united in marriage to Aldora Mammenga on June 22, 1948. They farmed near Tea, Hartford and Humboldt for 30 years before retiring in 1979. He was a Farm Bureau member serving as President and served on the Wellington Township Board. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Hartford for 50 years serving as Sunday school teacher and Superintendent, Lay Leader, and council member.

After retiring from farming he and Aldora moved to Hartford where Melvin continued to sell Pioneer Seed Corn, worked at the Sioux Falls Stockyards and West Central School Transportation.

Melvin loved playing cards, visiting and his Ford Vehicles. His pride and joy were his Ford Truck and his tractors which he loved to take to the Threshing Bees and drive in the parades.

Melvin was preceded in death by his parents, brothers, Ervin (infant), Lester and his daughter, Robin.

Grateful for having shared his life are his wife of 63 years, Aldora, children, Ronda (Wayne) Maass of Goddard, KS, and Rodney (Kristi) Schoffelman of Sioux Falls. 4 grandchildren, Nikki Schoffelman, Nathan (Candi) Maass, Benjamin Maass, and James(Erika) Maass; 5 great-grandchilden, Marley Black Lance, Hunter, Gavin and Isaac Maass, and Kadyn Franklin.

Parents
Photo [of stone shared with Bena G. Schoffelman] Will (William) Arend Schoffelman 1903 - 1988
Photo [of stone shared with Will A. Schoffelman] Bena Gretje Straatmeyer Schoffelman 1908 - 2004

Spouse
Photo [of a woman] Aldora Mammenga Schoffelman 1929 - 2015

Siblings

Photo [of his stone] Ervin Walter Schoffelman 1928 - 1929
Photo [of a man] Lester Schoffelman 1935 - 2011
Photo [of his stone] Baby Boy Schoffelman 1942 - 1942

Children
Photo [of her stone] Robin Linda Schoffelman 1961 - 2009

Created by: Gene Hammerstrom Added: 26 Dec 2011 Find a Grave Memorial 82423871"
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Melvin Ernest Schoffelman

Melvin Ernest Schoffelman
1925-2011

1948

Aldora Mammenga
1929-2015

(Not public)
Robin Lynn Schoffelman
1961-2009
Rodney Ernest Schoffelman
1964-2019

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Birthday September 23, 1925

  • The temperature on September 23, 1925 was between 9.9 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
    • January 3 » Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
    • February 15 » The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
    • March 21 » The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
    • May 15 » Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
    • July 10 » Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
    • November 28 » The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.

Day of marriage June 22, 1948

  • The temperature on June 22, 1948 was between 11.1 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 19.5 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
  • In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
    • May 9 » Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
    • May 23 » Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
    • June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
    • July 16 » Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
    • August 12 » Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
    • December 23 » Seven Japanese military and political leaders convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed by Allied occupation authorities at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.


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