Lee, Vera Irene {I682} (b. 21 AUG 1926, d. 16 FEB 2002)

Note: Had alzheimer's disease for many years.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Person
Abbreviation: Person
Author: (?) (UNKNOWN)

Page: Roy Junior McRoberts (Uncle Bud)

Birth: 21 AUG 1926 At the farm house, Preble County, Ohio

Death: 16 FEB 2002 Ohio

Burial: Weirs Chapel Cemetery, Ohio

Reference: 682

Note: Al and I were married in 1970. We have 3 children, Michelle
(22), Monica (20), and Marcus (13). Michelle will be
graduating from college in May, and plans to go on to get her
Masters in Library Science. Monica has another year and
semester of school to finish, and her plan is to be in
recreation. She would like to work at a church camp, so
possibly will need some Seminary schooling. We are all anxious
to get Marcus out of middle school, and move ahead! We are all
very involved in our church, which keeps us very busy.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Person
Abbreviation: Person
Author: (?) (UNKNOWN)

Page: Roy Junior McRoberts (Uncle Bud)

Birth: 24 JUL 1951 Columbia, Pennsylvania

Reference: 683

Note: Terry McRoberts, the son of Roy and Vera McRoberts, was raised
in Preble County in Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Science
degree from Manchester College, the Master of Music degree from
Youngstown State University, and the Doctor of Arts degree from
Ball State University. He served on the faculty of Blue
Mountain College in Mississippi for nine years, before moving
to his current position at Union University in Jackson,
Tennessee. He performs frequently on the piano in solo
recitals, collaborating with other musicians, and as a member
of the Jackson Symphony. He has been a church organist for
many years and currently serves at Forest Heights United
Methodits Church in that capacity. Currently, he serves on the
Executive Borad of the Tennessee Music Teachers Association and
the Membership Committee of the Sonneck Society. In his spare
time, he enjoys reading and walking.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Person
Abbreviation: Person
Author: (?) (UNKNOWN)

Page: Roy Junior McRoberts (Uncle Bud)

Birth: 11 MAY 1954 Richmond, Indiana

Reference: 684

Source: (Birth)
Title: Person
Abbreviation: Person
Author: (?) (UNKNOWN)

Page: Roy Junior McRoberts (Uncle Bud)

Birth: 26 JUL 1945 Paint Rock, Texas

Reference: 685

Source: (Birth)
Title: Person
Abbreviation: Person
Author: (?) (UNKNOWN)

Page: Roy Junior McRoberts (Uncle Bud)

Birth: 20 SEP 1972 Richmond, Indiana

Reference: 686

Source: (Birth)
Title: Person
Abbreviation: Person
Author: (?) (UNKNOWN)

Page: Roy Junior McRoberts (Uncle Bud)

Birth: 22 JUN 1974 Richmond, Indiana

Reference: 687

Source: (Birth)
Title: Person
Abbreviation: Person
Author: (?) (UNKNOWN)

Page: Roy Junior McRoberts (Uncle Bud)

Birth: 15 NOV 1981 Plano, Texas

Reference: 688

Note: Funeral Service was held at Alaska Baptist Church, with
Reverand Clinton W. Kaulfield officiating.

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1920 Michigan Census
Abbreviation: 1920 Michigan Census

Page: States he was born in Michigan

Source: (Death)
Title: Grand Rapids Press Obit
Abbreviation: Grand Rapids Press Obit

Source: (Social Security Number)
Title: Social Security Death Index
Abbreviation: Social Security Death Index

Birth: 08 FEB 1918 Plainfield, Michigan

Graduation: Date: ABT 1936
Place: Stockbridge High School, Livingston, Michigan, USA

Event: Type: Milit-Beg
Date: 05 DEC 1941
Place: Louisana, USA
Note: Army - Stationed at Camp Claiborne

Event: Type: Milit-Beg
Date: ABT 1941
Note: Served in World War 2

Event: Type: Obituary
Date: 04 JAN 1972
Place: Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA

Death: 04 JAN 1972 St. Mary's Hospital, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA

Burial: 06 JAN 1972 Dutton Cemetery, Dutton, Kent, Michigan, USA

Reference: 689

Birth: 17 DEC 1921 Linton, North Dakota

Education: Date: ABT 1939
Place: Attending School in Wisconsin

Event: Type: Living
Date: ABT 1933
Place: Steele, North Dakota, USA

Event: Type: Living
Date: ABT 1938
Place: Watertown, Wisconson, USA
Note: Lived with Joy Bontzin

Death: 10 OCT 1995 East Grand Rapids, Michigan

Burial: AFT 10 OCT 1995 Dutton Cemetery, Dutton, Kent, Michigan, USA

Reference: 690

Source: (Individual)
Title: 1920 North Dakota
Abbreviation: 1920 North Dakota

Source: (Social Security Number)
Title: Social Security Death Index
Abbreviation: Social Security Death Index

Birth: 19 NOV 1892 Emmons County, North Dakota

Nickname: /Verhoefen/

Graduation: Date: ABT 1910
Place: Stockbridge High School

Event: Date: 1915
Place: North Dakota
Note: Type: Lived in

Event: Type: Obituary
Date: 20 MAR 1983
Place: Grand Rapids Press

Occupation: Date: 1915
Place: Wheat Farmer

Occupation: Date: AFT 1927
Place: Caledonia High School

Death: 19 MAR 1983 Lowell, Michigan

Burial: 20 MAR 1983 Dutton Cemetary, Dutton, Kent County, Michigan, USA

Reference: 691

Note: I, Zina Mae Shepard VerHoeven, was born in Ingham County, near
Williamston, Michigan on January 26, 1899 to George E. and Oril
M. Shepard. I remember 3 different homes where we lived in
Michigan, but when I was about 6 years old, my parents and baby
brother Walter Duane, packed up our household goods and loaded
them on a train to Glenham, South Dakota, where my father took
up a government 'claim'. We lived there for 5 years until it
could be 'farmed up' and was his property, and could sell it.
My brother George Leo and Nettie M. were born in the sod house
we lived in during those 5 years. We had 2 rooms, which was
more than most people had, who lived in sod houses. I do not
remember if we had a board floor or not, but do believe it was
only a dirt floor packed down. The walls were 3 foot thick.
The roof was also sodded over boards and tar paper. Grass grew
thick and long in the roof so the rain did not soak through. We
had 2 windows in the large room and only one in the smaller
room. It was very warm in the winter and very cool in the
summer. After the five years there (early March), we packed
our belongings in a bobsled and moved to Mound City SD to a
farm about 50 miles away. The cows were tied to the back of
the sled and my pony, Spot, was tied along one side of the team
my father drove. We lived on this farm two years, then my
father took a civil service examination and became a mail
carrier on a rural route. My mother was his substitute. I
finished my schooling and my Michigan born brother, Walter
Duane, passed away in 1918 of the flu. My uncle, Harvey
Hadley, lived with us for several years and later became my
husband's best man at our wedding. In 1915, there was severe
drought in SD, but there were good crops in ND about 25 miles
from where we lived. My uncle headed north to hunt for work
with 2 horses on his buggy - no cars then. He stopped at a
farm about 9 miles north of the state line. The people on this
farm happened to be the parents of our best friends who moved
to Michigan in the fall of 1965, Mr. and Mrs. John VanBoven of
Cutlerville, Michigan. Well anyway, to go back to my uncle, he
asked these people if they knew of anyone who needed a hired
man. Mr. VanBoven said 'yes'. Mr. VerHoeven needed his and
told him where to go to find the VerHoeven farm. When he got
to the VerHoeven farm, no one was there. The VerHoevens were
harvesting on one of the son's farm. They were where they
could see the farm. My uncle turned back south again instead
heading on farther north when my future husband met him on
horseback. He took my uncle along with him and he worked all
through harvesting for the VerHoevens. Then he and my future
husband started the 'rounds' with the thrashing machine, both
as pitchers. When it became time to thrash the VerHoeven's
grain, which by the way took a month, the sister (Henrietta)
that lived at home and took care of and raised my husband, a
sister and 2 brothers after their mother passed away when the
youngest boy was only 4 years old and my husband 11 years old,
became sick. My uncle told them he was sure his niece would be
free to come help, so he headed back to Mound City, SD, and I
went along back with him. I was there about a month, but that
was plenty long enough for both Anthony and I to know there was
no one else but each other. I had to return home where I
taught school that fall, winter, and spring. My future husband
would come to Mound City, take my folks horse, to let his rest,
and drive 10 miles more to bring me home over the weekend.
My school was made up of all German children. Some of my
pupils were as old as I was - 16 years old. I had a little
girl who couldn't talk American at all. I stayed with the
parents of one of my pupils (a German couple). She and I spelt
on and under feather ticks on our bed. They lived in a 2 room
sod house, which was smaller than the one I lived in one the
claim. About the time my school was over, my future husband's
same sister got sick again, so I again went up there to work
until she was better. I ordered my wedding dress from Sears
Roebuck and Company while there, which I still have (November,
1970). We were married at my parents home in Mound City.
It was a very rainy day, so only one brother of my husband's
was able to come to our wedding. Even the minister, Rev. Henry
Girigh of the Methodist Church in Selby, SD, was about an hour
late. It had rained so his old Model T Ford got stuck in the
mud; no paved roads back then. My bridesmaid was a sister of
another uncle's (brother to one who found a husband for me)
wife. She has passsed on, but the groomsman is still alive and
living in California.
My husband, Anthony J. VerHoeven was born in a sod house in the
then Dakota Territory near the present town of Strasburg ND,
the former home of Lawrence Welk. My husband has know Lawrence
since he (Lawrence) was a small boy. The town is still very
much Germanfied. Even when small children are playing with
marbles or other small children games, they talk in German. If
you listen to Lawrence when he talks, you can hear how everyone
that talks American at all still has a brogue through there are
many young people who are teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc. My
husband knew him when Lawrence was just a boy. My husband
could only talk Holland or German when he started to school.
No American at all. His parents came from the Netherlands when
they were small children. In fact, his mother was only 6 weeks
old when they arrived in Iowa. His father's people came to
Holland, Michigan, and later went to Iowa also. His father met
and married Clara Postuma. They also took up a 'claim' where
my husband was born on November 19, 1892. There was no
railroad for many years so all grain was hauled to Eureliu,
about 40 miles away, mostly by ox teams. They also got what
groceries they needed when there.
He was the 6th of 9 children. Several years later they moved
to the large farm where I came on the scene and where the
mother and brother Johannas or Joe passed away. We lived on
one quarter of this large farm in a two room downstairs and one
room upstairs house, and where our four children were born.
The 2 oldest, a boy George and his wife Dorothy and their
daughter Alvina and a girl Clara and her husband Everett
Wallerman and their daughter Gloria came to Grand Rapids,
Michigan. During those terrible dry years in ND (1930). The
third child, Anna, was already in Wisconsin going to school and
staying with another uncle and his wife and son. The fourth
child, Earl, was in grade school when we came to Zeeland,
Michigan in October 1939. We spent the winter in Zeeland, then
moved near Gregory, Michigan, where I, along with my parents
and brother lived before ever going to SD. We lived there for
four years, when Anna met her husband, Harold Caskey, whose
mother was Earl's teacher. In 1943 we moved to good old
Caledonia, Michigan. At this date, November 19, 1970, (when I
am rewriting this) we have lived here 27 years. Earl was
called into Service in 1944. Served his time and went to a
Bible School in Los Angeles, California, where he met his wife.
They now live in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. They have 4
children - 2 in college and 2 in grade school. Anna and Harold
live in Dutton, Michigan. They have 3 children, all married (2
girls and 1 boy) and have 3 grandsons and 3 granddaughters.
Clara and Albert (her first husband died some years ago) have 5
children - 4 married; 1 boy at home. They have 11
grandchildren, 3 granddaughters, rest boys. George and Dorothy
live in Everett Washington, have 4 children, all married and 6
grandchildren - 1 girl, rest boys - 2 boys and their wives do
not have any children as yet.
Two grandsons and two grandson-in-laws are in the service.
Randy Grinage is now in Vietnam and Carl Patterson is preparing
to leave sometime in July or first of August.
Anna's husband is on the kidney machine. He has been ill for
some time. All the rest of the children are busy and well. I
had a heart attack - anterior coronary, May 22, 1970. Not very
strong at this writing, but feel good. Husband well and strong
and busy everyday. We are as much in love and happy after 55
years (54 years married) as at the beginning.
Zina M. VerHoeven

Source: (Birth)
Title: The Story of Zina Mae Shepard VerHoeven
Abbreviation: Zina Mae Shepard Diary

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1900 Michigan Census
Abbreviation: 1900 Michigan Census

Source: (Social Security Number)
Title: Social Security Death Index
Abbreviation: Social Security Death Index

Birth: 26 JAN 1899 Williamston, Ingham County, Michigan

Baptism: FEB 1899 Methodist Church, Livingston Co., MI

Event: Type: Obituary
Date: 12 SEP 1978
Place: Grand Rapids Press

Event: Type: Living
Date: 1905
Place: Gregory, Livingston Co., Michigan

Event: Type: Living
Date: 1911
Place: Glenham, South Dakota, USA

Event: Type: Living
Date: OCT 1939
Place: Zeeland, Michigan

Event: Type: Living
Date: 1940
Place: Gregory, Michigan

Event: Type: Living
Date: 1943
Place: Caledonia, Michigan

Occupation: Date: 1915
Place: Teacher at Mound City High School, SD

Religion: Date: AFT 1900
Place: Methodist Church, Selby, South Dakota, USA

Death: 11 SEP 1978 Lowell, Michigan

Burial: AFT 11 SEP 1978 Dutton Cemetary

Reference: 692

Note: Death Record says July 25, 1855

Note: Died of a heart attack at 12:45pm

Source: (Name)
Title: 1900 North Dakota Census
Abbreviation: 1900 North Dakota Census

Source: (Birth)
Title: Dutch Immigrants in U.S. Ship Passenger Manifests, 1820-1880:
An Alphabetical Listing by Household Heads and Independent
Persons
Abbreviation: Dutch Immigrants
Publication: Scholarly Resources, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware

Source: (Death)
Title: Death Record
Abbreviation: Death Record

Page: Anton VerHoeven

Source: (Individual)
Title: 1920 North Dakota
Abbreviation: 1920 North Dakota

Source: (Burial)
Title: Death Record
Abbreviation: Death Record

Page: Internet

Source: (Individual)
Title: Website
Abbreviation: Website

Birth: 26 JUL 1855 Noord Brabant, Holland

Nickname: /VerHoef/

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 08 FEB 1892
Place: Emmons Co, North Dakota
Note: The 5th Principal Meridian (eastern part of Iowa), Twp 130N,
Range 075W, Section 003, 160 Acres, paid cash, A patent land
conveyance, Doc ID 2076.

Event: Type: Death RTN
Date: 03 OCT 1956
Note: Have Death Record. Father listed as Sager VerHoeven, but this
information doesn't correspond with the immigration, census,
and Dutch vital records info that we've found.

Immigration: Date: 1862
Note: 1900 Census lists immigration as 1867

Naturalization: Date: 1892

Death: 30 SEP 1956 Strasburg Hospital, Strasburg, Emmons Co, North Dakota

Burial: 04 OCT 1956 Hull (Dutch Reformed) Cemetary, Emmons Co., ND - NW Corner of NW 1/4 of S 1, twp 126, R

Reference: 693

Census: Date: 15 JAN 1920
Place: Bakker Twp, Emmons Co, North Dakota
Note: Farmer. His parents listed as born in Holland.

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Bakker Twp, Emmons Co, North Dakota

Note: Could be 1905 - per notes of Anna Caskey

Note: Internet states death date as 1905.

Source: (Name)
Title: 1900 North Dakota Census
Abbreviation: 1900 North Dakota Census

Source: (Burial)
Title: Death Returns
Abbreviation: Death Returns

Page: Internet

Birth: ABT 1862 The Netherlands

Nickname: /Postema/

Immigration: Date: ABT 1862
Place: Iowa
Note: 6 weeks old, - 1900 census lists immigration year as 1871

Death: 1903 North Dakota

Burial: 1903 Hull (Dutch Reformed) Cemetary, Emmons Co., ND - NW Corner of NW 1/4 of S 1, twp 126, R

Reference: 694

Note: According to the SSDI she was born August 28, 1883

Source: (Name)
Title: 1900 North Dakota Census
Abbreviation: 1900 North Dakota Census

Source: (Death)
Title: Social Security Death Index
Abbreviation: Social Security Death Index

Source: (Burial)
Title: Death Returns
Abbreviation: Death Returns

Page: Internet

Birth: 09 DEC 1881 Iowa

Death: MAY 1976 Strasburg, North Dakota

Burial: MAY 1976 Hull (Dutch Reformed) Cemetary, Emmons Co., ND - NW Corner of NW 1/4 of S 1, twp 126, R

Reference: 695

Source: (Name)
Title: 1920 North Dakota
Abbreviation: 1920 North Dakota

Birth: 16 FEB 1917 Strasburg, North Dakota

Death: 12 JAN 1996 Washington

Reference: 696

Birth: 14 SEP 1920 Fargo, North Dakota

Death: 22 AUG 1985 Evertt, Washington

Reference: 697

Note: The Following was take from the web site:
http://www.heier.net/gedcom/d0010/g0000021.html#I7693
BIRTH: 21 AUG 1937, Hull, Emmons County, North Dakota DEATH: 23
APR 1997, Prosser, Washington - Prosser Memorial Nursing Home
Alvina Peters, 59, of Prosser, Washington Emmons County Record,
5/13/1997
Alvina Peters, 59, of Prosser, Washington, died Wednesday,
April 23, 1997, at Prosser Memorial Nursing Home of cancer.
Alvina was born August 31, 1937, in Hull to George and Dorothy
(Groen) VerHoeven. The family moved to Michigan and then, when
she was a teenager, to Washington. She graduated from Lynden
Christian high School.
She married John W. Peters on August 7, 1959, in Lynden,
Washington. they lived in Snohomish, Yakima, Ephrata, and
Sunnyside before settling in Prosser in 1967. Mr. Peters died
in 1975. She worked at various jobs including the Bank of
Prosser. She eventually established a personal bookkeeping
service.
She was a member of First Presbyterian Church and served there
as bookkeeper, treasurer, elder and a promoter of missions. She
also assisted in founding several organizations in Prosser and
was active in many others.
Survivors include two sons and one daughter-in-law, Mike and
Susan Peters of Bellevue, Washington, and Mark Peters of
Prosser; one daughter, Michelle Peters of Prosser; one sister
and brother-in-law, Marilyn and Ken Stone of Everett,
Washington; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Merlin and
Margaret VerHoeven, and William and Charlotte VerHoeven, all of
Everett, and nieces and nephews.
An internment service was conducted Monday, April 28, 1997, at
Prosser Cemetery followed by a memorial service.
Meyer Funeral Home of Prosser was in charge of arrangements.

EVENT: Funeral 28 APR 1997, Prosser, Washington - Prosser
Cemetery

Birth: 31 AUG 1937 Hull, Emmons County, North Dakota

Death: 23 APR 1997 Prosser, Washington, Prosser Memorial Nursing Home

Reference: 698

Birth: 03 MAR 1946

Reference: 699

Birth: 15 MAY 1941

Reference: 700

Birth: 15 MAY 1941

Reference: 701