Holland City News, Thursday, March 8, 1917

The funeral of Arie Koning, aged 73, will be held in this city Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Dryden, 93 West 13^th Street. The G. A. R. will attend in a body and the Spanish War Veterans will act as pallbearers. Rev. Flipse of Third Reformed Church will officiate.

Koning died Tuesday at the Soldiers’ Home, Grand Rapids. He was a private in company

I, 25^th Michigan Infantry, and entered the Home from Grand Haven. He also is an old sailor, having been on the crew of the Wallen, the R. Kauffers, and almost every other schooner that hailed from the Holland harbor.

Arie was formerly a policeman in this city and was the first to wear the blue uniform in Holland. Present Chief of Police Van Ry remembers how, when he was a youngster, he would stand in awe as Koning’s uniform and brass buttons passed by, never thinking that some day he would wear them. That was in the seventies when only one or two officers patrolled the city.

(Buried in Pilgrim Home Cemetery.)