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Personal data Grieke Gurthurst (Grieke Gurthurst "Grace") "Grace" Dirks 


Household of Grieke Gurthurst (Grieke Gurthurst "Grace") "Grace" Dirks

She is married to John R. Molendorp.

They got married on December 16, 1921 at Sibley, Osceola Co., IA, she was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Arnold Duane Molendorp  1922-2016 


Notes about Grieke Gurthurst (Grieke Gurthurst "Grace") "Grace" Dirks

Grieke Gurthurst "Grace" Dirks

Sources: Author: Troff, Deanne; Marshall, Courtney; Schobert, Kurt; Title: "Grace Gurthust Dirks," (Publication location: Salt Lk. City, UT, Publisher: Family Search, Publication date: xiii Sept MMXX), Repository: The Cloud

Link: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LJ1F-69K

"... Grace Gurthust Dirks Last Changed: December 29, 2019 by Deanne Troff Sex Female Last Changed: November 11, 2014 by Wanda Birth 19 May 1898 Allendorf, Osceola, Iowa, United States Death 5 January 1996 Sibley, Osceola, Iowa, United States

Also Known As Grace
Also Known As Griekje
Residence 1910 Ocheyedan, Osceola, Iowa, United States Last Changed: July 7, 2019 by Kurt Schobert
Residence 1925 Allison Township, Osceola, Iowa, United States
Residence 1930 Horton, Osceola, Iowa, United States
...
Pension from 1934 to 1946 Iowa, United States
Residence 1940 Ocheyedan Township, Osceola, Iowa, United States

Spouses and Children

John R. Molendorp 1898 - 1966
Marriage: 20 Dec 1921 Sibley, Osceola, Iowa, United States
Grace Gurthust Dirks 1898 - 1996

Children of Grace Gurthust Dirks and John R. Molendorp (1)

[1] Arnold Duane Molendorp 1922 - 2016

Parents and Siblings

John Meyers Dirks 1862 - 1920
Marriage: 02 Feb 1886 Grundy County, Iowa, United States
Peiterke Moet 1865 - 1962

Children of Peiterke Moet and John Meyers Dirks (10)

[1] Lucy Dirks 1886 - 1951
[2] Anne Dirks 1888 - 1983
[3] Cassen Dirks 1890 - 1983
[4] Ida Dirks 1891 - 1993
[5] John Dirks 1893 - 1986
[6] Jacob Reed Dirks 1894 - 1975
[7] Claus Dirks 1896 - 1990
[8] Ella Dirks 1896 - 1971
[9] Grace Gurthust Dirks 1898 - 1996
[10] Theodore Dirks 1904 - 1976"

Author: N.N. (anonymous, pseudonym = Noble honor), Title: "Grace Dirks Molendorp, (Publication loction: Sibley, IA, Publisher: Find-a-Grave, Publication date: xxii Jan MMXIV), Repository: The Cloud

Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123948922/grace-molendorp

"Photo [stone shared with John Molendorp] added by noble honor
Picture of [her obituary] Added by noble honor

Grace Dirks Molendorp Birth 19 May 1898 Allendorf, Osceola County, Iowa, USA Death 5 Jan 1996 (aged 97) Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa, USA Burial Holman Cemetery Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa, USA Memorial ID 123948922

Parents
[photo - stone shared with Peiterke Dirks] John Dirks 1862 - 1920
[photo - stone shared with John Dirks] Peiterke Moet Dirks 1865 - 1962

Spouse
[photo - stone shared with Grace Molendorp] John Molendorp 1898 - 1966 (m. 1921)

Siblings

[photo - stone shared with Rube Heetland] Anna Dirks Heetland 1888 - 1983
[photo - her stone] Lucy Dirks Schipper 1889 - 1951 [OFB Wymeer 2638]
[photo - stone shared with Ollie Dirks] Cassen Dirks 1890 - 1983
[photo - stone shared with Earl M. Jacobs] Ida Dirks Jacobs 1891 - 1993
[photo - stone shared with Lillian M. Dirks] John Dirks 1893 - 1986
[photo - his military-style grave marker] Jacob R. Dirks 1894 - 1975
[photo - stone shared with Marie Dirks] Claus Dirks 1896 - 1990
[photo - his stone] Theodore Dirks 1904 - 1976

Children
[photo - man] Arnold Duane Molendorp 1922 - 2016

Created by: noble honor Added: 22 Jan 2014 Find a Grave Memorial ID: 123948922"

Grace's newspaper-clipping obituary, provenance unknown:

"GRACE MOLENDORP

Funeral services for Grace Molendorp, 97, were held Monday, Jan. 8 at the United Methodist Church, Sibley, with Rev. John Poe officiating. Burial was in Holman Township Cemetery, Sibley, with Andringa Funeral Home, Sibley, in charge of arrangements.

Grace Molendorp, daughter of John and Pieterke (Moet) Dirks was born on May 19, 1898 in Allendorf. She lived her youth and attended school in the Sibley area. She attended normal training school in Cedar Falls for one year and taught in rural schools in Osceola county for a number of years.

She married John Molendorp of Allendorf on Dec. 16, 1921 in Sibley. They farmed on several different farms in the Sibley and Ocheyedan area. John died in November of 1966. Grace moved to Sibley in 1967. In 1992 she moved to the Country View Manor of Sibley.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Sibley. She was a former member of the Trinity Reformed Church of Sibley for many years. Grace was a member of the Hospital Auxiliary and she volunteered within the community.

Grace died on Friday, Jan. 5, 1996 at the Osceola Community Hospital in Sibley.

Survivors are her son, Arnold Molendorp of Sibley; three granddaughters and their husbands, Barbara and Kenneth Reiste of Dawson, Minn., Karen and Clyde Newton of Sioux City and Betty and Mark Consoer of Mankato, Minn., and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband John, her parents, three sisters and five brothers."
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Grieke Gurthurst Dirks

Casjen Martens Dirks
1835-1865
Antje Krull
1838-1910
Iddelt Abels Moet
1819-1894
Lukje (Lüktje) (Luktje) Troff
1822-1909

Grieke Gurthurst Dirks
1898-1996

1921

John R. Molendorp
1898-1966

Arnold Duane Molendorp
1922-2016

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    Birthday May 19, 1898

    • The temperature on May 19, 1898 was about 10.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
      • April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
      • April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
      • July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
      • September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
      • October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

    Day of marriage December 16, 1921

    • The temperature on December 16, 1921 was between 0.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. 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 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
      • March 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
      • May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
      • July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
      • September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
      • October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
      • October 29 » United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.

    Day of death January 5, 1996

    • The temperature on January 5, 1996 was between -2.3 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
      • February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
      • June 10 » Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
      • July 5 » Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
      • September 4 » War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
      • November 5 » Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
      • December 22 » Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes near Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board.

    Day of burial January 8, 1996

    • The temperature on January 8, 1996 was between 1.8 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
      • January 17 » The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
      • February 1 » The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
      • April 1 » The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
      • June 13 » The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
      • August 6 » The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.
      • November 3 » Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultranationalist organization Grey Wolves, dies in the Susurluk car crash, leading to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
    

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