Later Years and Death
After retiring from his post at Iowa State, Veenker moved to a small acreage farm near Ames, Iowa. He subsequently moved to Arkansas. In his later years, Veenker lived in Malta, Illinois, which was the hometown of his wife. He died of cancer in September 1959 at age 65. The golf course on the Iowa State campus was renamed Veenker Memorial Golf Course shortly after his death. Veenker was survived by his wife; they had no children.
Veenker was posthumously inducted into the Iowa State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007.
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