10. | John Dehaan was born on 2 Mar 1916 in Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa, USA (son of John Dehaan and Mabel Adelia Schlotfeldt); died on 5 Jun 1994 in Lester, Lyon County, Iowa, USA. Notes:
Funeral Announcement
John DeHaan, age 78, of Hills, MN died Sunday at Royal C. Johnson Veterans Memorial Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD following an extended illness. Funeral services will be 10:00 AM Wednesday at Apostolic Christian Church in Lester, Iowa with the Church Ministers officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be 2979 PM Tuesday at the Apostolic Christian Fellowship Hall in Lester with the family present from 7979 PM. Roste Funeral Home of Rock Rapids is in charge of arrangements.
John DeHaan was born March 2, 1916 at Rock Rapids, Iowa the son of John and Mabel (Schlotfeldt) DeHann. He grew up and attended school near Rock Rapids. During World War II, John served his country in the United States Army Air Force, first stateside and later in the South Pacific.
On August 22, 1942 John was united in marriage to lone Moser at Dakota City, Nebraska. After their marriage John returned to active duty until receiving his honorable discharge on October 25, 1945. John and lone moved to Hills, Minnesota where they farmed for six years John then started his own construction company, DeHaan Construction, and did general construction until retiring in 1981. In February of 1994. he became ill and for the past several months has been in and out of the hospital. Last Sunday morning John died at the Royal C. Johnson Veterans Memorial Hospital in Sioux Falls at the age of seventy-eight.
Surviving are his wife of fifty one years, lone of Hills, Minnesota along with four children, Susan Vander Wolde and her husband Arlen of Valley Springs, South Dakota; Sharon Gerber and her husband, Ernest of Danville, Indiana; Tim DeHaan, and his wife, Lois of Hills, Minnesota and Shirlee DeHaan of Sioux Falls. Also surviving are sixteen grandchildren, two Great-grandchildren and one brother, Roy DeHaan and his wife, Alice of Inwood, Iowa. Preceding John in death were his parents, John and Mabel DeHaan and his stepfather, Ben Cutler.
John married Ione Louella Moser on 22 Aug 1942 in Dakota City, Dakota County, Nebraska, USA. Ione (daughter of John Moser and Rose Celia Kellenberger) was born on 14 May 1919 in Lester, Lyon County, Iowa, USA; died on 27 Jan 2005 in Hills, Rock County, Minnesota, USA; was buried on 31 Jan 2005 in Apostolic Christian Church Cemetary-Lester, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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