A large gathering of friends and relatives crowded the Methodist Church Friday afternoon to pay a final tribute to the late Mrs. John Vanderyacht. Rev. E. Grimes conducted the funeral services, and interment was in Monumenta Cemetery. Mrs. Vanderyacht passed away at Bellingham February 7, following an illness of about four weeks.
Cena Telgenhoff was born in Zeeland, Michigan January 1, 1889. She was married in 1905 at Center Lake, Michigan, to John Vanderyacht, and came to Lynden in 1907, and had lived in the district since that time. She was the mother of two children, Sarah, who passed away in 1910 at the age of four, and George, who is attending high school. Besides her husband and son, she leaves five brothers and three sisters: Herman, George, and Leon Telgenhoff, Mrs. Hary Vander Ark and Mrs. Martin Elzinga, all of Central Lake, Michigan; Walter and Edward Telgenhoff and Mrs. Albert Vanderyacht of Lynden; and a wide circle of friends, whom she loved and served in time of need, and who are [crease] tenderly pay a tribute of respect to her memory, and share with the bereaved family their sorrow in their great loss.
