9 . Elmer Geurink (Henry John2, Arent Jan’) was born Town of Lima, Sheboygan County, WI March
28, 1903.
He married Agnes Ferris Ringle, WI, April 21, 1928.
*Text taken from Wausau newspaper dated April 25, 1928:
The bride wore a yellow georgette frock trimmed with dyed Spanish lace of the same shade and a
bandeau of brilliants and carried a shower bouquet of yellow roses and sweet peas. Her bridesmaid wore Reach satin back crepe and a corsage bouquet of spring flowers.
At the wedding supper which followed the ceremony, covers were laid for forty guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Geurink will reside on the bridegroom’s farm in the town of Ringle and will be at home immediately to friends.
Agnes was born Wausau, WI July 25, 1906.
*Text taken from local newspaper obituary: Elmer Geurink, 71, Bimamwood, died Friday night in a Wausau hospital.
Funeral services have been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at New Hope Community Church with burial in Forestville Cemetery, both in the Town of Easton. The Rev. Ray VanBeek will officiate. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. Monday and before lo:30 a.m. Tuesday at Kopitzke - Staus Funeral Home, Bimamwood, and from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the church.
Mr. Geurink was born on March 28, 1903, in the Town of Lima, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Geurink. On April 21, 1928, in Ringle, he married the former Miss Agnes Ferries, who survives.
Mr. Geurink was a dairy farmer in Ringle for 42 years. For the past 42 years, he had lived in Birnamwood.
Surviving besides his wife, are one daughter, Mrs. Jack Vlietstra, and one son, Roger, both of Ringle Route 1; two brothers, Hilbert, Aniwa Route 1, and Floyd Ringle Route 1; three sisters, Mrs. Lester TenHaken. Birnamwood, Mrs. Hemy Nauta, Antigo, and Mrs. Wiebe Nauta, Minocqua; and seven grandchildren.
Geurink services: Funeral services for Elmer Gemink, 71, Bimamwood, who died Friday, were held Tuesday at New Hope Community Church with burial in Forestville Cemetery, both in the Town of Easton.
The Rev. Ray VanBeek officiated Pallbearers were Truman and Hemy Geurink, Victor TenHaken, Harold Nauta, Orville Lodholz and Daniel Ferries.
The funeral for Elmer was on November 5, 1974.
“Elmer worked on the home farm and then was the second in the family to leave home to work for a time with his friend Aarie TePaske in a foundry in Kalamazoo, Michigan learning what factory work was like.
Miss Agnes Ferries of the town of Ringle and Elmer Geurink of the town of Easton were united in marriage at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the
home of the bride’s father, Arthur Ferries, the Rev. F. M. Wiersma officiating. Miss Edna Ferries, sister of the bride, and Hilbert Geurink, brother of the bridegroom, attended the couple. The home was prettily decorated with yellow and white streamers and white wedding bells.
Elmer died November 1, 1974 Wausau, WI, at 71 years of age.
Elmer was the first in the family to marry one other than of Dutch descent. Agnes Ferries lived a few miles down Highway N, daughter of a Scotsman. Her mother was German and of the Catholic faith. Agnes chose to become a member of the Forestville Church with Elmer for their lifetime, and Elmer served terms there as Deacon and Trustee. Agnes worked in a Wausau factory prior to their marriage. She was very slender and had wavy dark hair and beautiful blue eyes. Their wedding took place at the Ferries home in April, 1928. They too settled into farming, purchasing acres in the Town of Ringle with a wood frame barn and log house, previously owned by Charley and Frances Holster which was the birthplace of Annie Holster Geurink. After Jesse moved out west and that farm was vacant, Elmer and Agnes moved there and with Henry raised big potato crops to which the land was suited. Returning to their own farm a few years later, the log house was replaced by a neat wood frame bungalow and when the barn burned it too was replaced at a barn raising in 1938. Elmer and Agnes had one of the neatest farms in the township. Roger and Karen are their children. Elmer and Agnes also moved to Birnamwood when they sold their farm and retired, Elmer died a few years later and at this writing at age 82, Agnes still lives in their home, doing well after a painful summer in 1987 resulting in a knee replacement surgery. ”
*Taken from Annie Geurink‘s writing The Geurink’s in Marathon County.
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