Rozeboom, Will 1888-1955 & Josie Wesselink Family

ROZEBOOM, ROSEBOOM, WESSELINK, VANHEUKELOM, VERPLOEG

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 1/3/2022 at 15:09:32

Rozeboom Family and Farm

Rozeboom, Will 1888-1955 and Josie Wesselink

Also Rozeboom, Henry B. 1918-1993 and Gertrude Kooima Family and Farm

This story was taken from the ‘Rock Valley Records & Recollections’ book written about 1976 in honor of the two hundredth birthday of our nation. Story found on pages 59 and 60. It was a revision of the history written by Lottie Thomas in 1955. It was transcribed for this BIOS by Beth De Leeuw of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society and some research notes were added.

Will Rozeboom bought a 120 acre farm from Ed Moss in 1917, Plato Township, Southwest corner of Section 10, three miles south, one mile east, and a half mile south of Rock Valley. At that time Will Rozeboom, his wife, and family were living one and one-half miles southeast of the farm he purchased.

In 1919 the newly purchased farm was rented to Mr. Feikema for one year, and the Rozebooms, along with their two young sons, Willis and Henry, moved to a small acreage at Sioux Center, Iowa. Here a daughter, Anna Marie (now Mrs. George Van Beek), joined the Rozeboom family. During the time the family lived in Sioux Center, Will traveled a beautiful dapple-gray Percheron stallion.

Then the slump came! Will sold the stallion and traded the acreage for a line of Emerson farm machinery and in 1921 the family moved to the farm which he had purchased in 1917. Here two more daughters, Harriet and Verna Mae, became family members. All five of the Will Rozeboom children graduated from the Rock Valley High School.

In 1941, Mr. and Mrs. Will Rozeboom moved to Rock Valley, and their son, Henry, and Gertrude Kooima were married. Henry and his wife took over the farming, and later bought the farm. In 1958 Henry increased the farm acreage by purchasing a forty along the south side of the farm. Henry and Gertrude have spent their entire married life on the family farm, and Henry has spent all, except for a few very young years, of his entire life on the farm.

The Henry Rozebooms have four children, Lyle married Carol Van Voorst, and they are living in Brooklyn, New York, with their two sons, Nathan and Aaron; and Linda, who is married to Stan Van Peursem. They have two children, Dustin and Heather, and the family lives in Sioux City, Iowa; Dennis married Cathy Mouw. They have one son, Noah, and are living in Hospers, Iowa. Donita is married to Gary De Bruin, and they are living at Ames, Iowa. All four children were graduates of the Rock Valley High School.

The only original building on the farm is the barn. From 1926 until recently, several new structures have been built: a corn crib, silo, garage, hog house, machine shed, house, and steel corn cribs.

Above submitted to the book by Henry B. Rozeboom

RESEARCH NOTES – added by Wilma J. Vande Berg
From a family report on ancestry.com done by others not verified by submitter.
William Rozeboom born 20 Jun 1888 at Harrison SD died 17 Nov 1955 Sioux City buried Sioux County. His parents were Willem Roseboom 1849-1915 and Johanna Van Heukelom 1855-1935.
He married Johanna Wesselink.
From Johanna’s marriage record states that they married 8 Dec 1910 in Sioux County IA and her father was Henry B. Wesselink and mother was Henrietta VerPloeg.

OBITUARY OF WILL ROZEBOOM
Source: Sioux County Capital of Orange City(11-24-1955)
Born: June 20, 1888
Died: November 17, 1955
Funeral services for Will Rozeboom, 67, retired locker plant operator here who died Thursday at the Sioux City hospital were held Saturday in the First Reformed church with Rev. A. A. Dykstra officiating. Burial was at Carmel.
Mr. Rozeboom was born at Harrison, S. D., June 20, 1888. He farmed near Carmel until 1937, when he came to Rock Valley to open a locker plant. He retired from that business several years ago. He married Johanna Wesselink December 8, 1910.
Survivors include the widow; two sons, Dr. W..E. Rozeboom of LeMars, Ia., and Henry of Rock Valley, three daughters, Mrs. George Van Beek of Rock Valley; Mrs. Albert Broek of Sioux Center, Ia., and Mrs. Russell Miller of Kansas City, Mo.; two brothers, Rich of Sioux Center and Tony of Carmel; two sisters; Mrs. Peter Roskamp of Edgerton, Minn., and Mrs. Mintie Pals of Pella, Ia., and 15 grandchildren.

OBITUARY OF JOSIE (JOHANNA) (WESSELINIK) ROZEBOOM
Source: Doon Press (8-2-1979)
Born: 1891
Died: 1979
Mrs. Will Rozeboom, 88, of Rock Valley died Thursday in the hospital there after a long illness. Services were held Saturday in the First Reformed Church.
She was the former Johanna Wesselink, born in Carmel; married in 1910; he died in 1955.
Survivors include two sons, two daughters, and others.

OBITUARY OF HENRY ROZEBOOM
Source: Rock Valley View (4-14-1993)
Born: October 24, 1918
Died: April 10, 1993
Henry B. Rozeboom, 74, of Rock Valley, died Saturday, April 10, at Hegg Memorial Hospital in Rock Valley after a long illness. Services were at the First Reformed Church in Rock Valley, with the Rev. Roger Voskull officiating. Burial was at Valley View Cemetery.
Rozeboom was born October 24, 1918, in Carmel, the son of Will and Josie (Wesselink) Rozeboom. He graduated from the Rock Valley Public High School in 1937. He married Gertrude Kooima on September 12, 1941, at her family farm near Rock Valley. The couple lived on the family farm southeast of Rock Valley until 1989, when they moved to Rock Valley.
Mr. Rozeboom was a lifetime member of the Reformed Church of America, serving in various leadership positions at First Reformed Church and Faith Reformed Church in Rock Valley. He also served on the Hope Haven school board.
Survivors include his wife, Gertrude; two sons and their wives, Lyle and Carol of Rochester, Minnesota, and Dennis and Cathy of Maple Grove, Minnesota; two daughters and their husbands, Linda and Stan Van Peursem of The Woodlands, Texas, and Bonita and Gary De Bruin of Vernon Hills, Illinois; grandchildren, Aaron, Nathan, David and Debra Rozeboom of Rochester, Dustin and Heather Van Peursem of The Woodland, Noah and Micah Rozeboom of Maple Grove and Kristen and Laura De Bruin of Vernon Hills; a brother, Willis and his wife, Marge, of Bella Vista, Arkansas; and two sisters and their husbands, Anna Marie and George Van Beek of Rock Valley and Verna and Russ Miller of Overland Park, Kansas.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Henry; and a sister, Harriet Broek.

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