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Albert Vernon Barendse

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Albert Vernon Barendse

Birth
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, USA
Death
6 May 1973 (aged 69)
Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Woodburn, Marion County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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Albert Barendse

Albert Barendse, 69, a Hubbard resident for 25 years and president of the girls' softball league the past 20 years, died Sunday noon, May 6, of a heart ailment at Willamette Falls Hospital, Oregon City. He was taken ill Saturday morning and moved at 5 a.m., to the hospital by his oldest daughter, Mrs. Kenneth L. Burkert of Canby.
Funeral services will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m., in the Ringo-Cornwell Funeral Chapel in Woodburn. Interment will be in Belle Passi Cemetery.
Remembrances in Mr. Barendse's name to Canby Ambulance fund or the Hubbard Community Church are suggested by the family.
Retired seven years, Mr. Barendse had been employed at the West Linn Mill of Crown-Zellerbach Corp., for 15 years. Earlier he had been in the trucking business with his brother, Ernest, at Astoria, for about the same number of years.
Born in Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan 15, 1904, he came as a teenager to Oregon to live in the Brownsmead-Knappa area. He attended Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) and was in the ROTC program there.
Always interested in baseball, he began coaching the North Marion girls' softball team when his own three daughters were schoolgirls, and was starting the 1973 season with the team. He also had served eight years on Hubbard City Council, retiring at end of 1972. He was a member of the Hubbard Community United Church of Christ.
He and Caroline Sorensen were married in Astoria Sept. 22, 1932. She survives, as do three daughters and a son – Mrs. Kenneth (Velma) Burkert if Canby; Ronald Barendse, teacher and dean of students at Redmond High School; Mrs. William (Nancy) Dixon of Salem; and Mrs. Robert (Nella) Hoffer of Union City, Calif.
He also leaves nine grandchildren: Le'Anne Hall, University of Washington graduate student, and Greg Hall, CSU student, both from Canby; Rhonda, Daniel, Jena, and Lisa Barendse of Redmond, Ore.; Scott and Kris Hoffer of Union City, Calif.
He was the brother of Florence Williamson of Astoria, Henrietta Fish and Peter Barendse of Knappa, Mable Westerholm and Erni Barendse of Brownsmead, and of the late Clarence Barendse. Seventeen nieces and nephews survive.

Canby Herald
Canby, Oregon
May 9, 1973
Page 3, column 3

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Albert Barendse

Albert Barendse, 69, a Hubbard resident for 25 years and president of the girls' softball league the past 20 years, died Sunday noon, May 6, of a heart ailment at Willamette Falls Hospital, Oregon City. He was taken ill Saturday morning and moved at 5 a.m., to the hospital by his oldest daughter, Mrs. Kenneth L. Burkert of Canby.
Funeral services will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m., in the Ringo-Cornwell Funeral Chapel in Woodburn. Interment will be in Belle Passi Cemetery.
Remembrances in Mr. Barendse's name to Canby Ambulance fund or the Hubbard Community Church are suggested by the family.
Retired seven years, Mr. Barendse had been employed at the West Linn Mill of Crown-Zellerbach Corp., for 15 years. Earlier he had been in the trucking business with his brother, Ernest, at Astoria, for about the same number of years.
Born in Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan 15, 1904, he came as a teenager to Oregon to live in the Brownsmead-Knappa area. He attended Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) and was in the ROTC program there.
Always interested in baseball, he began coaching the North Marion girls' softball team when his own three daughters were schoolgirls, and was starting the 1973 season with the team. He also had served eight years on Hubbard City Council, retiring at end of 1972. He was a member of the Hubbard Community United Church of Christ.
He and Caroline Sorensen were married in Astoria Sept. 22, 1932. She survives, as do three daughters and a son – Mrs. Kenneth (Velma) Burkert if Canby; Ronald Barendse, teacher and dean of students at Redmond High School; Mrs. William (Nancy) Dixon of Salem; and Mrs. Robert (Nella) Hoffer of Union City, Calif.
He also leaves nine grandchildren: Le'Anne Hall, University of Washington graduate student, and Greg Hall, CSU student, both from Canby; Rhonda, Daniel, Jena, and Lisa Barendse of Redmond, Ore.; Scott and Kris Hoffer of Union City, Calif.
He was the brother of Florence Williamson of Astoria, Henrietta Fish and Peter Barendse of Knappa, Mable Westerholm and Erni Barendse of Brownsmead, and of the late Clarence Barendse. Seventeen nieces and nephews survive.

Canby Herald
Canby, Oregon
May 9, 1973
Page 3, column 3

Thank you to ash tree for sending this.


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