The Rev. John A. Roggen, 94, of Sioux Center, died Tuesday, Sept. 11, in a Sioux City hospital.
Services were at 10 A.M., Friday in the First Reformed Church at Sioux Center. The Rev. Dr. Thurman Rynbrandt and the Rev. John Ornee officiated. Burial was in Memory Gardens Cemetery under the direction of the Vander Ploeg Funeral Home of Sioux Center.
Rev. Roggen was born Oct. 23, 1884, at Alton. He lived in the Alton and Middleburg communities as a child. He attended Grinnell University, Hope College in Michigan and the University of Michigan. He was graduated from Western Theological Seminary in 1911.
He married Jacqueline De Haan June 20, 1911 at Holland, Mich. She died Nov. 14, 1976.
He served 41 years in the ministry and held pastorates in Alberta, Canada, Conrad, Mont., Monroe, S.D., Hamilton, Mich. and Maurice, Iowa. He retired in 1951 and moved to Sioux Center where he served as assistant pastor of the First Reformed Church for nine years.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Earle (Ella) Tellman of Holland, Mrs. Brian (Margaret) De Pree of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Arthur (Marion) McGilvra of Sioux Center; two sons, Ivan J. of Saginaw, Mich., and Leon A. of Orange City; 20 grandchildren; 27 great grandchildren and a great great grandchild.
Sioux Center News 1079-09-19.
The Rev. John A. Roggen, 94, of Sioux Center, died Tuesday, Sept. 11, in a Sioux City hospital.
Services were at 10 A.M., Friday in the First Reformed Church at Sioux Center. The Rev. Dr. Thurman Rynbrandt and the Rev. John Ornee officiated. Burial was in Memory Gardens Cemetery under the direction of the Vander Ploeg Funeral Home of Sioux Center.
Rev. Roggen was born Oct. 23, 1884, at Alton. He lived in the Alton and Middleburg communities as a child. He attended Grinnell University, Hope College in Michigan and the University of Michigan. He was graduated from Western Theological Seminary in 1911.
He married Jacqueline De Haan June 20, 1911 at Holland, Mich. She died Nov. 14, 1976.
He served 41 years in the ministry and held pastorates in Alberta, Canada, Conrad, Mont., Monroe, S.D., Hamilton, Mich. and Maurice, Iowa. He retired in 1951 and moved to Sioux Center where he served as assistant pastor of the First Reformed Church for nine years.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Earle (Ella) Tellman of Holland, Mrs. Brian (Margaret) De Pree of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Arthur (Marion) McGilvra of Sioux Center; two sons, Ivan J. of Saginaw, Mich., and Leon A. of Orange City; 20 grandchildren; 27 great grandchildren and a great great grandchild.
Sioux Center News 1079-09-19.
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