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Personal data Roy Richard Kroese 

  • He was born on April 19, 1906 in somewhere in IA.
  • (note1) .Source 1
    Sources: Peter Visser; Lorin Dam; Berend Eilders
  • He died November 1957 in Pinal Co., AZ, he was 51 years old.
  • He is buried November 1957 in Casa Grande, Pinal Co., AZ (Mt. View Cem.).
  • A child of Hans Kroese and Antje “Annie” Brouwer
  • This information was last updated on December 12, 2024.

Household of Roy Richard Kroese

He is married to Anna Margaret Balster.

They got married on July 3, 1929 at Primghar, O'Brien Co., IA, he was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

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Notes about Roy Richard Kroese

Roy Richard Kroese

Sources: Author: NN (family name not given), Barb; Title: "Roy Richard Kroese," (Publication site: Casa Grande, AZ, Publisher: Find-a-Grave, Publication date: vii Mar MMIX)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34556238/roy-richard-kroese

"Photo [Roy's stone] added by Barb

Roy Richard Kroese Birth 1906 Death Nov 1957 (aged 50-51) Burial Mountain View Cemetery Casa Grande, Pinal County, Arizona, USA Memorial ID 34556238

Roy Richard Kroese, 51, 812 N. Center, was found dead in his automobile at 10:45 Monday morning. He is reported to have died shortly after midnight. He was en route home from Phoenix.

For several years Mr. Kroese had been an employee of the Texaco Service Station on Second Street. He had been a resident of Casa Grande for 12 years.

A happy, cheerful man with hosts of friends throughout the city, Kroese is survived by his wife, Anna M.; his father, Honas, and two brothers, Joe and John, all of Sheldon, Iowa; and four children, Ruthann, a student at CGUHS; Mrs. Bill Grayson, of Flagstaff; Kenneth, of Tucson and Howard, of Williams.

The funeral will be held at Calvary Baptist Church at 2 p.m. Friday. Rev. Keith Hart will officiate.

Spouse
[Anna's stone] Anna Margaret Balster Kroese 1905-1990

Maintained by: Find a Grave Originally Created by: Barb Added: 7 Mar 2009 Find a Grave Memorial 34556238"

Author: Dam, Lorin; Visser, Peter; Title: "Roy Richard Kroese," (Publication site: Salt Lk. City, UT, Publisher: Family Search, Publication date: xxvi Aug MMXIX)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRM9-QZT

"... Roy Richard Kroese 19 April 1906 - November 1957 Male
...
Life Sketch

Roy Richard Kroese, 51, 812 N. Center, was found dead in his automobile at 10:45 Monday morning. He is reported to have died shortly after midnight. He was en route home from Phoenix.

For several years Mr. Kroese had been an employee of the Texaco Service Station on Second Street. He had been a resident of Casa Grande for 12 years.

A happy, cheerful man with hosts of friends throughout the city, Kroese is survived by his wife, Anna M.; his father, Honas, and two brothers, Joe and John, all of Sheldon, Iowa; and four children, Ruthann, a student at CGUHS; Mrs. Bill Grayson, of Flagstaff; Kenneth, of Tucson and Howard, of Williams.

The funeral will be held at Calvary Baptist Church at 2 p.m. Friday. Rev. Keith Hart will officiate.
...
Roy Richard Kroese Last Changed: August 26, 2019 by Peter Visser Sex Male Last Changed: October 31, 2016 by Lorin Dam Birth 19 April 1906 Iowa, ... Death Nov 1957 Burial Casa Grande, Pinal, Arizona, ...
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Pension 1934 - 1946 Iowa, ...
Residence 1940 Ward 1, Sheldon, Floyd Township, O'Brien, Iowa, ...
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Spouses and Children

Roy Richard Kroese 1906-1957
Marriage: 3 July 1929 Primghar, O'Brien, Iowa, ...
Anna Margaret Balster 1905-1990

Children of Anna Margaret Balster and Roy Richard Kroese (1)

[1] Nora Jean Kroese 1930-Deceased

Parents and Siblings

Hans Kroese 1873-1964
Marriage: 20 March 1902 Woodbury, Iowa, ...
Antje Brouwer 1883-1908

Children of Antje Brouwer and Hans Kroese (3)

[1] John Walter Kroese 1902-1972
[2] Joseph Herman Kroese 1904-1985
[3] Roy Richard Kroese 1906-1957"

Author: Eilders, Berend; Title: "Family tree familie Eilders," (Publication site: Amsterdam Noord-Holland, Publisher: Genealogy on-line, Publication date: xxvii Nov MMXXIV)

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-familie-eilders-is-samengesteld-door-b.-eilders/I345597.php

"Personal data Roy Richard Kroese
Alternative name: Ray R. Kraese ...
He was born on April 19, 1906 in Ìowa.
Resident:
in the year 1925: O'Brien, Iowa.
in the year 1935: Same Place.
in the year 1940: Ward 1, Sheldon, Floyd Township, O'Brien, Iowa.
in the year 1949: United States.
on April 13, 1950: Casa Grande, Pinal, Arizona.
(Pension) between 1934 and 1946 in Ìowa.
(Social Program Claim) on December 9, 1957.
(LifeSketch) : Roy Richard Kroese, 51, 812 N. Center, was found dead in his automobile at 10:45 Monday morning. He is reported to have died shortly after midnight. He was en route home from Phoenix. For several years Mr. Kroese had been an employee of the Texac.
He died November 1957, he was 51 years old.
He is buried in Casa Grande, Pinal County, Arizona.
A child of Hans Kroese and Antje Brouwer"
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Hans Kroese
1873-1964

Roy Richard Kroese
1906-1957

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Anna Margaret Balster
1908-1990

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Birthday April 19, 1906

  • The temperature on April 19, 1906 was between 4.8 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
    • May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
    • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
    • September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
    • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
    • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.

Day of marriage July 3, 1929

  • The temperature on July 3, 1929 was between 12.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
    • May 1 » The 7.2 Mw  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
    • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
    • July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
    • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
    • August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.


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