GENEALOGY OF ETTA JOHANNA MASSELINK; GENERATION 10
KLEINE MASSELINK HARMEN 1660-1731
KLEINE MASSELINK GEERD 1693-1743
KLEINE MASSELINK HARMEN 1719-1771
KLEINE MASSELINK HENDRIK 1747-1790
KLEINE MASSELINK FENNE 1771-1843
KLEINE MASSELINK GERRIT HENDRIK 1792-1870
KLEINE MASSELINK (MASSELINK) HENDRIK 1829-1907
KLEINE MASSELINK (MASSELINK) GERRIT HENDRIK (GH) 1858-1927
MASSELINK PAUL REEMT 1885-1984
MASSELINK ETTA 1914-1956
Masselink Siblings: Etta (1914); Johanna (1915); Anna (1918); Gertrude (Trudy) (1919); Gerald (1921); Raymond (1922); Margaret Lucille (Lucy) (1926); Esther (1930)
Spouse: None
Children: None
1914 MAR 28 Born in Leota, Murray, Minnesota; Named after her Grandmother, Etta Poets Masselink
Etta attended District 87 school for her first eight school years. Her dad (Paul Reemt) was a school board member there, and I remember that we always had Christian teachers in the public country school. Etta went to Chandler High School for one year and stayed with her Uncle Nick and Aunt Anna Kallemeyn. The following year, she and her sister Joanne (Johanna) drove the family Model A Ford to Edgerton High School.
1934 Fall Etta took the train to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our family watched her leave from the train station. I remember hearing the train whistle from the classroom at Edgerton High and getting a sick feeling every day it left town. Etta worked in various homes until she started working in Mary Free Bed Hospital. She lived with Esther Templeman, who was a Christian school teacher.
1956 DEC 6 On the morning of December 6 Etta called me to ask if I knew whether our dad (Paul Reemt) and mom (Martha Peters Masselink), who were visiting in Minnesota, would be back in time to go to the annual Messiah Concert put on by the Calvin College Oratorio Society. She was planning to go Christmas shopping and wanted to pick up the tickets. That evening, she and Esther Templeman went to the Calvin Thespians Play and had a good time at "coffee" afterwards, Esther Templeman said. An hour after that, Esther found Etta dead on her knees in prayer. The doctor said she had died of a brain hemorrhage. It did not seem possible to us.
Above are remembrances of Etta's sister, Gertrude (Trudy) Masselink Bouma
1956 DEC 6: Died and buried in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan
KLEINE MASSELINK HARMEN 1660-1731
KLEINE MASSELINK GEERD 1693-1743
KLEINE MASSELINK HARMEN 1719-1771
KLEINE MASSELINK HENDRIK 1747-1790
KLEINE MASSELINK FENNE 1771-1843
KLEINE MASSELINK GERRIT HENDRIK 1792-1870
KLEINE MASSELINK (MASSELINK) HENDRIK 1829-1907
KLEINE MASSELINK (MASSELINK) GERRIT HENDRIK (GH) 1858-1927
MASSELINK PAUL REEMT 1885-1984
MASSELINK ETTA 1914-1956
Masselink Siblings: Etta (1914); Johanna (1915); Anna (1918); Gertrude (Trudy) (1919); Gerald (1921); Raymond (1922); Margaret Lucille (Lucy) (1926); Esther (1930)
Spouse: None
Children: None
1914 MAR 28 Born in Leota, Murray, Minnesota; Named after her Grandmother, Etta Poets Masselink
Etta attended District 87 school for her first eight school years. Her dad (Paul Reemt) was a school board member there, and I remember that we always had Christian teachers in the public country school. Etta went to Chandler High School for one year and stayed with her Uncle Nick and Aunt Anna Kallemeyn. The following year, she and her sister Joanne (Johanna) drove the family Model A Ford to Edgerton High School.
1934 Fall Etta took the train to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our family watched her leave from the train station. I remember hearing the train whistle from the classroom at Edgerton High and getting a sick feeling every day it left town. Etta worked in various homes until she started working in Mary Free Bed Hospital. She lived with Esther Templeman, who was a Christian school teacher.
1956 DEC 6 On the morning of December 6 Etta called me to ask if I knew whether our dad (Paul Reemt) and mom (Martha Peters Masselink), who were visiting in Minnesota, would be back in time to go to the annual Messiah Concert put on by the Calvin College Oratorio Society. She was planning to go Christmas shopping and wanted to pick up the tickets. That evening, she and Esther Templeman went to the Calvin Thespians Play and had a good time at "coffee" afterwards, Esther Templeman said. An hour after that, Esther found Etta dead on her knees in prayer. The doctor said she had died of a brain hemorrhage. It did not seem possible to us.
Above are remembrances of Etta's sister, Gertrude (Trudy) Masselink Bouma
1956 DEC 6: Died and buried in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan