Services for Anna Van Marel will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at Steen Reformed Church in Steen. The Rev. Dan Ramaker will officiate. Burial will follow at Eastside Cemetery in Steen.
Anna Van Marel, 88, Steen, died Monday, Feb. 18, 2002.
Anna Cleveringa was born to William and Altje (Cleveringa) Cleveringa on Jan. 18, 1914, on the family farm near Sioux Center, Iowa. She grew up on the family farm and attended Sioux Center Christian School. Upon completing her education she helped her parents and did some cleaning for area people.
She married Arie J. Van Marel on March 4, 1936, at the parsonage in Sioux Center. They first made their home on the Van Marel farm near Orange City, Iowa, and in 1942, moved to their farm near Steen where they farmed until retirement. In 1975 they moved to Steen. Mr. Van Marel died in 1985. She continued to live in their home. In January 2002 she had a heart attack and was hospitalized for a short while. She was admitted to Luverne Hospital on Feb. 11.
Mrs. Van Marel was active in Women's Circle and attended adult Sunday School at church. She also enjoyed crocheting, reading, playing piano, traveling and socializing.
Survivors include her seven children, Alvin (Clarella) Van Marel, Boyden, Iowa, Darlene (Vernon) Bolt, Bellflower, Calif., Evelyn (Gerhart) Van Dam, and Rosella (Arvin) Bleyenberg, all of Edgerton, Arnold (Rosetta) Van Marel, Beaver Creek, Luretta (Berwyn) Van Otterloo, Rock Rapids, Iowa, and Mary Ann (Don) Palmquist, Sioux Falls, S.D.; 30 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and four sisters-in-law, Tena Van Marel, Anna Van Marel, Jen Van De Berg, all of Orange City, Iowa, and Cynthia Cleveringa, Sioux Center.
Mrs. Van Marel was preceded in death by her husband, Arie, two granddaughters, Leann Bleyenberg and Shannon Kollis, four brothers, Fred, Clarence "Nick," Bill and Louis Cleveringa, and three sisters, Ruth Wielenga, Wilhemina Rozeboom and Luwina Sneller.
Roste Funeral Home, Hills, is in charge of arrangements.