Dykema, Jessie 1922-2016

DYKEMA, JARSEMA, OTTENS, BUIS, DEELSNYDER, MATTHEWS, BIELEMA, VEGTER

Posted By: NettieMae
Date: 1/5/2017 at 18:43:15

JESSIE DYKEMA, 94, of Pleasant View Home, Morrison, IL, died Sunday, December 4, 2016 at the home.
The funeral service will be 2:00 P.M. Saturday, December 10, 2016 at the Morrison Chapel of the Bosma-Renkes Funeral Home preceded by visitation from 12:30 P.M. until the time of the service. Rev. Gerald H. Norman, pastor of Ebenezer Reformed Church will officiate. Interment will be at Grove Hill Cemetery in Morrison, IL.
Jessie was born October 15, 1922, in Garden Plain, IL, to Joe G. and Minnie (Jarsema) Ottens. She was educated in the rural Whiteside County grade schools. She married Preston J. Dykema on May 23, 1941, in Morrison, IL. He died May 16, 1997. She was a private housekeeper for others, and also farmed, along with her husband, in the rural Morrison and Prophetstown areas, until 1962 when they moved to the Unionville area of Morrison and into Morrison in 1982. She has resided at Pleasant View Home since 1988. Jessie was a member of the Ebenezer Reformed Church in Morrison and the church's Ladies Aid Society. She enjoyed talking to family and friends. A memorial to Ebenezer Reformed Church has been established.
Survivors include three sisters, Luella Buis of Morrison, IL, Della Mae Deelsnyder of Fulton, IL and Betty (Donald) Matthews of Indio, CA; and one brother, Harvey Ottens of Morrison, IL; many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Preston; three sisters, Katherine Bielema, Pauline Ottens, and Johanna Vegter; three brothers, David, Gerald, and LaVerne Ottens.
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