Popma, Reincella Mrs. Frank 1913-2001

POPMA, NYHOF, DRAAYER

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 3/2/2010 at 07:13:02

RENCELLA POPMA
ORANGE CITY, Iowa - Rencelia Popma, 88, of Orange City, died Sunday, Dec. 30, 2001, at~ George Community Good Samaritan Center in George, Iowa. Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at First Reformed Church in Orange City, with the Rev. Steven Vander Molen officiating. Burial will be in West Lawn Cemetery. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today, with the family present 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.Rencella, who was known as "Rennie," was born May 27, 1913, in Clear Lake, S.D., the daughter of Ben and Jane (Nyhof) Draayer. As a child, she moved to Maurice, Iowa, with her parents. On Feb. 14, 1934. she married Frank Elmer Popma. They made their home in Orange City. She was a homemaker and assisted her husband in the operation of Popma Radio and TV. Her husband passed away Dec. 5, 1979, in Orange City. In 1998. Mrs. Popma became a resident of Pioneer Memorial Home in Orange City. She transferred to the Nursing Facility at Sioux Center Community Hospital in Sioux Center, Iowa, in 1999. Since 2000, she had lived at George Community Good Samaritan Center. She was a member of First Reformed Church, where she was active in the women's organizations. She helped organize the first Tulip Time Food Stand for the church. Rennje enjoyed crocheting. Survivors include her three children, Barbara and her husband, Clifford Harmelink of Las Vegas, Nev., Frank Popma Jr. of Naples, Fla., and Nyla Thoreau of Spencer, Iowa: seven grandchildren, Randy Harmelink, Rick Harnelink and his wife, Angie, Bret Popma and his wife, Amy, Nicole and her husband, Gabriel Flores, Jessica De Vos, Natalie and her husband, Micah Pohlman, and Rachel and her husband, Nicholas Stettnichs; and 10 great-grandchildren.In addition to her husband. she was preceded in death by a brother, John Draayer; and two sisters, Minnie Rowenhorst and Hattie Zeutenhorst.
Source: Local newspaper after 12-30-2001