DeBoom, Bette Mrs. Richard 1934-2010

DEBOOM, BONNEMA, DEKKER

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/13/2010 at 04:40:41

6/27/1934 - Sunday, January 10, 2010
Betty De Boom, 75, of Sioux Center, IA died Sunday, January 10, 2010 at her residence.
Visitation will be held Wednesday from 4-8PM at Memorial Funeral Home of Sioux Center with the family present from 6-8PM.
A prayer service for family and friends will be held Thursday at 9:30AM at Memorial Funeral Home of Sioux Center followed by interment in Memory Gardens Cemetery of Sioux Center.
A memorial service will be held Thursday at 11AM at the Lebanon Christian Reformed Church of Lebanon, Iowa with Rev. Jeff Scripps and Rev. Duane Tinklenberg officiating.
The De Boom family prefers memorials to Franken Manor, c/o the Sioux Center Community Hospital Foundation.

Betty June (Bonnema) De Boom was born June 27, 1934 to Albert and Henrietta (Dekker) Bonnema in Hawarden, Iowa. She grew up in rural Hawarden, attended country school, Western Christian High School and then Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She taught second grade at the Sioux Center Christian School.
On August 12, 1953 she was joined in marriage to Richard Lee De Boom in the Lebanon Christian Reformed Church, Sioux Center, IA. The couple spent the first two years of their marriage in various army posts while Rich was enlisted in the United States Army. After which they resided on a farm 3 ½ miles south of Lebanon for 11 years, then moved to Orange City for 6 years and in 1972 returned to the farm south of Lebanon. They resided there farming and raising their four children until 1983. After that they moved to an acreage north of Hawarden and then retired to Sioux Center in 1998.
She was a life time member of the Lebanon Christian Reformed Church, Sioux Center, Iowa where she was a Girls Society and Calvinette leader for many years. She also led the ladies aid society for several years and taught Sunday school. She enjoyed baking, sewing, crocheting and embroidery. She willingly cared for grandchildren and great grandchildren and was beloved by all of them
Betty devoted much of her life to teaching and caring for others. She substitute taught for many years in area schools and in 1983 turned her focus to caring for others in long term care settings in Hawarden and then Sioux Center. In her final years she worked as an activities coordinator in the Franken Manor where she was actively involved with the care and life of the residents until her illness made it impossible for her to continue.
Survivors include her husband of 56 years, Richard of Sioux Center; four children: Rick (Kay) De Boom of Hawarden, Jan De Boom of Wauchula, FL, Patricia (Gary) Kraayenbrink of Venice, FL and Pamela (Mike) Hulstein of Sioux Center; 12 grandchildren; 9 great grandchildren; and sister, Alberta (Norm) Horstman of Sioux Center.
Betty was preceded in death by her parents; daughter-in-law, Bev (Jan) De Boom; sister, Verna Bonnema and brother and sister-in-law Richard and Alma Bonnema and brother-in-law, Ivan Van Houten.
Source: Memorial Funeral Home obit.