Alphonse William Jansen

Alphonse Jansen WEST LIBERTY, Iowa - Alphonse William Jansen, 84, of Nichols, died Tuesday, Feb. 29, 2000, at the Simpson Memorial Home in West Liberty following a short illness. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in West Liberty. The Rev. Ed O'Melia will officiate. Burial will be at the St. Mary's Cemetery in Nichols. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Thursday at the Barker Funeral Home in West Liberty with a Christian wake service and rosary at 7 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Iowa City Hospice. Mr. Jansen was born Sept. 26, 1915, in Nichols, the son of John and Marie Wissink Jansen. He married Marie Bernice Neff on April 11, 1942, at St. Mary's Church in Iowa City. He farmed in the Nichols area most of his life and was employed at Hon Industries from 1955 until he retired in 1976. He moved to West Liberty in May of 1999. He was a member of St. Mary's Church in Nichols most of his life and a faithful member of the prayer group and was active in the parish R.C.I.A. process. Survivors include his wife, Marie Jansen of West Liberty; two daughters, Diane Barkhurst and her husband, Kenneth, of Lake Zurich, Ill., Carol Kimes and her husband, An...[more]

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w, of Cotati, Calif.; a son, David W. Jansen and his wife, Laurie, of Nichols; nine grandchildren and their spouses, Angela and Kevin Powell, Cristine and Tony Salazar, Shawn and Amy Barkhurst, Timothy Barkhurst and his fiance Erin, Carrie and Bill Han, Stephanie Jansen, Graham Blackman, Emily Blackman and Morgan Kimes; five great-grandchildren, Joshua, Kayla and Lindsay Powell, twins, Blayne and Briston McAtee; and two sisters, Josephine Pohlmann and Cecelia Simon. He was preceded in death by his parents, a grandson, Eric Blackman; three brothers, Jack Jansen, Henry Jansen, Theodore Jansen; a sister, Agnes Schrader; a half brother, Leo Van Aken; and four half sisters, Mary Kaalberg, Frances Kaalberg, Sophia Polman and Dorothea Van Aken.