James Vanden Berg, 77, rural Worthington, died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, in Worthington Regional Hospital.
Services were Monday, Oct. 7, at American Reformed Church in Worthington. The Rev. Irwin Van Leeuwen officiated. Burial with full military honors was in Maplewood Cemetery, Luverne.
James Vanden Berg was born March 4, 1925, to Teunis and Elizabeth (Nicolay) Vanden Berg in Brooten. He married Lylamae Meinerts on May 20, 1955, in Luverne.
Mr. Vanden Berg grew up and attended school in Edgerton. He served from 1944 to 1951 in the Army during World War II and the Korean War and was in the National Guard. There he served in the Signal Corps, as a heavy weapons infantryman and as a combat engineer.
He attended Coyne Electrical School in Chicago, Ill., and Vicker's School of Hydraulics in Milwaukee, Wis. He worked for ZwartÕs Electric in Edgerton for four years. After marriage, the couple lived in Windom where he worked at Kimberly Clark for 18 years as a master electrician and as their private pilot. They moved to rural Worthington in 1971, where he farmed and worked as electrical supervisor at Campbell Soup Co. for 18 years until his retirement in 1988.
Mr. Vanden Berg was a member of American Reformed Church in Worthington.
Survivors include his wife, Lylamae Vanden Berg, Worthington; three sons, Merle Vanden Berg, Darwin Vanden Berg and Steven Vanden Berg, all of Sioux Falls, S.D.; one daughter, Shirlene (Daryl) Kruse, Worthington; two grandchildren, Justin and Dalton Kruse, Worthington; three brothers, Arthur (Arlene)
Vanden Berg, Worthington, Jacob Vanden Berg, Denver, Colo., and Lester (Beth) Vanden Berg, Edgerton; three sisters, Grace (Gerrit) Schuit, Chesley, Ontario, Canada, Henrietta (Gilbert) Elbers, Luverne, and Johanna Sankey, Holland, Mich.
Mr. Vanden Berg was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Henry and Richard.
Dingmann Funeral Home, Worthington, was in charge of arrangements.