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Personal data Peter Jacobus Leenhouts 


Household of Peter Jacobus Leenhouts

He is married to Everdina Geurink.

They got married after 1896.Source 1


Child(ren):

  1. Johanna Leenhouts  1896-1925 


Notes about Peter Jacobus Leenhouts

Peter Leenhouts, early resident at Alton passed on at his home Thursday morning, May 2, at four o'clock. He did not rally from a heart attack suffered at 10:30 the previous evening. He had reached the age of 73 years, 9 months and 28 days.

Mr. Leenhouts continued active until a year ago when he had his first heart attack, from which he recovered sufficiently to be about the house and yard.

He was born in Marion, N.Y. and came to Alton, Iowa with his parents. He married Dena Geurink, who passed on in 1932. To the union one daughter was born, the late Mrs. Joe Aberson.

Surviving are four grandchildren; Dena, Mrs. Davis Palsma of Orange City, Anthony, Bertha and Peter Aberson of Alton.

In the year 1934 he married Mrs. Joe Vrieze, who survives him, with her three children: Betty, Mrs. W.A. Blalock of New Orleans, La., John and Joan Vrieze. Also surviving is one sister, Mrs. Kryn Schuller of Alton.

Mrs. Leenhouts continued farming southeast of Alton until the death of his first wife, when he retired and moved to Alton. He was active in church affairs, serving for some years as deacon of the First Reformed Church here. He was a kind neighbor and friend, devoted to his family and respected by all for his integrity.

Among out-of-town friends here for the funeral services which were held at the home and First Reformed Church Saturday afternoon in charge of Rev. Hesselink were Mrs. Leenhouts's brother, Henry Aberson of Dickinson, N.D., Ben Vrieze, Cresco, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lee and three children, Spring Valley, Minn., Case Veen of Sheldon and many from neighboring towns.

Alton Democrat - 9 May 1946

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Peter Jacobus Leenhouts

Pieter Leenhouts
1814-1900
Sara Suzanna Orlebeke
± 1813-1851
Jakob Cambier
± 1815-1853
Maria van Hal
1817-????

Peter Jacobus Leenhouts
± 1873-1946

> 1896

Everdina Geurink
1875-1932

Johanna Leenhouts
1896-1925

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Historical events

Day of death May 2, 1946

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    • May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
    • August 23 » Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
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