Thys Donald "Don" Westra [Parents] was born ¹ on 9 Feb 1925. He died ² on 24 Sep 1968 in Iowa, USA. He was buried ³ in Hope Cemetery, Hull, Sioux County, Iowa, USA. Don married ⁴ Betty Ann Holmes ⁴ on 16 Jul 1963 in Rock, Minnesota, USA.

Other marriages:

Weaver, Mary Adella

Betty Ann Holmes ¹ was born ² on 7 Feb 1932 in Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa, USA. She died ² on 10 Aug 2002 in Aransas Pass, San Patricio County, Texas, USA. She was buried ² in Hope Cemetery, Hull, Sioux County, Iowa, USA. Betty married ¹ Thys Donald Westra "Don" on 16 Jul 1963 in Rock, Minnesota, USA.

Northwest Iowa Review; August 17, 2002

Betty Ann Westra, 70, Aransas Pass, TX, formery of Rock Valley and Sheldon, died Saturday, Aug. 10.

Services were Monday, Aug. 12 at Limbaugh Funeral Home in Portland, TX.

Betty Westra, daughter of Dale and Clara Holmes, was born Feb. 7, 1932, in Rock Valley. She attended Rock Valley schools. She married Herbert F. Krekow, Jr. on Oct. 7, 1949. They lived in LeMars and Cherokee before moving to Sheldon in 1995. They divorced, and she married Thys Donald (Don) Westra on July 16, 1963. While she lived in Sheldon, she worked for the Hartley packing plant. She moved to Schuyler, NE, in 1974 to work for Excel. She worked there for 27 years. She retired and moved to Aransas Pass, TX. in 1996.

Survivors include seven children, Thomas, Kathleen, Wendy, Sara, Michael, Melissa and Amy; two step-children, Jerry James and Cathy; 15 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Thys Westra, in 1968; her former husband, Herbert Krekow; and her mother, Clara M. Chesser, in 2001.

Thys Donald "Don" Westra [Parents] was born ¹ on 9 Feb 1925. He died ² on 24 Sep 1968 in Iowa, USA. He was buried ³ in Hope Cemetery, Hull, Sioux County, Iowa, USA. Don married Mary Adella Weaver.

Other marriages:

Holmes, Betty Ann

Peter Westra was born ^{1, 2} on 19 Jun 1902 in Sioux County, Iowa, USA. Peter married Della Post.

Della Post [Parents] was born ¹ on 23 Sep 1903 in Hull, Sioux County, Iowa, USA. She died on 6 Dec 1989 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA. She was buried ² in Hope Cemetery, Hull, Sioux County, Iowa, USA. Della married Peter Westra.

Thys Post was born ¹ on 30 Nov 1877 in Tzummarum, Franekeradeel Municipality, Friesland, The Netherlands. He died on 21 May 1957 in Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, USA. He was buried ¹ in Hope Cemetery, Hull, Sioux County, Iowa, USA. Thys married ^{1, 2} Roelofje Gritters "Ruth" on 15 Jul 1903 in Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, USA.

Funeral services for Thys Post, 79, were held Saturday afternoon, May 25, 1957 at 1:00 at the home and 1:30 at the Christian Reformed Church. Rev. H.C. Van Deelen officiated. Burial was made at the Hope Cemetery under the direction of the Van Etten Funeral Home.

Pallbearers were six of his grandsons, Thys Westra, Larry Post, William Vander Wilt, Donald Post, Henry Berghorst and Peter Roy Westra.

Mr. Post was born November 30, 1877 in the Netherlands. He came to the United States at the age of 12 and spent most of his life on the farm near Hull, Iowa. He retired in the year of 1942 and moved to Hull.

In the year of 1903 he he was united in marriage to Ruth Gritters, Tot his union 10 children children were born. His wife Ruth and two infant daughters preceded him in death.

In the year of 1925, he was married to Mrs. Dora Vander Ziel, who with his eight children survive him: Delia, Mrs. Peter Westra, of Hull; George of Tyler, Minn.; John of Kimbrae, Minn.; Irene, Mrs. John Van Der Wilt, of Ruthton, Minn..; Egbert of Hull; Jeanette, Mrs. Joe Berghorst, from Beaver Creek; Minnie, Mrs. Henry D. Koele, of Hull; Ruth, Mrs. Cornie De Vries, of Sandpoint, Idaho, 37 grandchildren and 27 greatgrandchildren, 5 step-daughters and 1 step-son, who with their children also survive.

Mr. Post was a diabetic sufferer of many years but died suddenly of a heart attack at the Sioux-Center hospital.

Sioux County Index 1957-05-30.

Roelofje "Ruth" Gritters [Parents] was born ¹ on 29 Jul 1884 in Diever, Drenthe, The Netherlands. She died ² on 8 Jul 1922 in Hull, Sioux County, Iowa, USA. Ruth married ^{3, 4} Thys Post on 15 Jul 1903 in Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, USA.

Mrs. Post Dies.

The community was shocked Saturday afternoon, when the report that Mrs. Thys Post had died.

Mrs. Post has been very ill for some times and under the care of physicians ……… and all that could possibly be done was done to relieve her.

She is survvived by a large family being the mother of ten children, nine of which are living the oldest being a girl of about seventeen years of age and the youngest a baby of five or six weeks.

The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon from the home and from the Christian Reformed church, Rev. Kuyper of Rock Valley officiating, the remains were laid to rest-In Hope Cemetery.

It was one of the largest funerals ever held In Hull, showing the esteem and respect in which she was held by all who knew her. Relatives and friends of the family were here from great distances in attendance.

The sincere sympathy of all goes out to Mr. Post and the children in their great loss of a loving wife and mother.

Sioux County Index 1922-07-14.

Samuel Huston ¹. Samuel married Mary.

Mary ¹. Mary married Samuel Huston.

Francis Collier Goode [Parents] was born ¹ on 28 Aug 1811. Francis married Sarah Woodruff Crane ².

Sarah Woodruff Crane ¹. Sarah married Francis Collier Goode.