Van Peursem, Dena 1915-1993

VAN PEURSEM, VAN DER KAMP, BOGGAARDS, BOERTJE, DE VRIES, FERGUSON

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 10/3/2007 at 17:18:57

Dena Van Peursem

PRAIRIE CITY - Dena Boertje Van Peursem, 77, of Prairie City died Monday, Feb. 22, at the Des Moines General Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Prairie City First Reformed Church.

The Rev. Joel Brummel, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Waveland Cemetery in Prairie City.

Friends may call at Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorials to the First Reformed Church will be accepted.

Survivors are her husband, Lester; a son and daughter-in-law, Ronald and Imge of Newton; two daughters, Lorena (Mrs. Alan) Van Der Kamp of Prairie City and Gladys (Mrs. Dale) Boggaards of Pella; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are a brother, Raymond Boertje of Prairie City and two sisters, Christina (Mrs. Harold) De Vries of Prairie City and Wilma Mrs. Bill) Ferguson of Marshalltown.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Mrs. Van Peursem was a member of the Prairie City First Reformed Church.

The daughter of Rodger and Gertrude Boggaards Boertje, she was born March 26, 1915 in Fairmount community in Jasper County.

She was married to Lester Van Peursem Nov. 23, 1937 in Prairie City. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, February 1993