When Geertruida Aleida Vereschildt was born on 4 January 1888, in Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands, her father, Johannes Gerardus Vereschildt, was 30 and her mother, Geertruida Johanna Koetsier, was 27. She married John Cornelis Branger on 8 May 1912, in Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She immigrated to Minnesota, United States in 1940 and lived in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and St. Anthony, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years. She died on 28 January 1971, in Columbia Heights, Anoka, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 83.