Nadine Mary Vanden Brink

 Rock Rapids, IA        Nadine Vanden Brink, age 92 of Rock Rapids, IA died Sunday, November 29, 2015 at the Rock Rapids Health Centre in Rock Rapids, IA.        Funeral service will be 2:00 PM, Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at United Methodist Church in Rock Rapids, IA, with Rev. Dean Shelly officiating.  Burial will follow at Hillside Cemetery in Lester, IA.        Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church on Wednesday.        The Jurrens Funeral Home of Rock Rapids is handling arrangements.        Nadine Mary (Hansen) Vanden Brink was born on December 16, 1922 on the Hansen Family Farm south of Lester, IA, to F.J. (Jude) and Emma (Johnson) Hansen. Nadine was the youngest of four children.  Nadine attended country school and graduated from Lester High School in 1940. On January 17, 1941, Nadine married the love of her life Ceel Vanden Brink in Spencer, IA at the Methodist parsonage; they were married for sixty-nine years. To this marriage three children were born, Mary Ann, Dennis and Judy. While Ceel was in the service Nadine and Mary Ann lived in Sioux City, IA, where she worked for the Sioux City packing house. While there she met her best friend Clara Huber who Mary Ann called Aunt Clara and to this day when we talk about her she was still known as Aunt Clara even to Nadine’s grandchildren. After Ceel returned from WWII they lived in Michigan, North Dakota, Minnesota and in 1959, they moved back to the Hansen Family Farm and remained there until 2008, when they moved into Lester. Nadine was a member of the United Methodist Church in Rock Rapids for many years. She was active in WSCS and the ladies circle and in her younger years taught Sunday school.      Ceel passed away April 2, 2010 and in August of 2011, Nadine fell and broke her hip. She moved into the Rock Rapids Health Centre and had made that her permanent home. There she passed away this past Sunday, November 29, 2015 and the age of 92.        Nadine is survived by her son, Dennis (Loretta) Vanden Brink of Sioux Falls, SD and her daughter, Judy (Pete) Ver Meer of Lester, IA. Also surviving are grandchildren: Jason (Amy) Balster of rural Alvord, IA, Natalie (Scott) Cross of Lester, IA, Craig (Wendy) Vanden Brink of Sioux Falls, SD and John Vanden Brink of Sioux Falls, SD; great-grandchildren: Jessica, Nicole and Wyatt Vanden Brink and Bradley and Cole Balster; and nieces, nephews and other extended family.        She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ceel; her daughter, Mary Ann; sons-in-law, Virgil Balster and Joseph Aiello; her brother, Milton Hansen; her sisters, Marcella Newborg and Melva Jean Moser.