Zoet, Gertrude J. Mrs. Henry 1914-2010

ZOET, DEVRIES, TESLAA

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/4/2010 at 07:44:13

Gertrude J. Zoet
December 20, 1914 - March 29, 2010
Mrs. Gertrude Zoet, age 95, of Hull, passed away on Monday, March 29, 2010, at the Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull.

There will be a funeral service on Friday, April 2, at 11:00am, at the First Reformed Church in Hull. The Rev. Verlyn Boone will officiate. Interment will follow at the Hope Cemetery in Hull. Visitation will be after 4:00pm on Thursday, with the family present from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Hull.

Gertrude Johanna was born on December 20, 1914, at Hull, the daughter of John G. and Hattie (De Vries) Te Slaa. She was raised at Hull, where she attended a country school through the eighth grade. In her early adult years, she worked in the Hull Hospital and did house cleaning for other families.

On February 23, 1939, she married Henry Zoet at Hull. They farmed in Lyon and Sioux Counties, where she was a homemaker. In 1967, they moved into Hull. Henry passed away on January 30, 1997, in Hull.

In April of 2006, Gert became a resident of Pleasant Acres.

She was a member of the First Reformed Church, where she participated in Reformed Church Women’s Ministries. She also belonged to the Farm Bureau Women’s Organization and was a volunteer at Pleasant Acres.

Gertrude enjoyed gardening (especially flowers), baking (especially pies), reading, working word puzzles, doing crafts, and crocheting afghans, baby blankets, and around hangers. She loved it when her grandchildren and great-grandchildren would come to visit her.

Survivors include a son and his wife, John Junior and Hendrene Zoet; and two daughters and their husbands, Hester and Vernon De Jongh and Henrietta and Robert W. Dykstra, all of Hull; eight grandchildren, Melinda (Mark) Hanrahan, Jill (Ben) Brown, Jeffrey (Carrie) De Jongh, Julie (Todd) Arends, Brian (Jacinda) Zoet, Barbra (Mike) Van Es, Scott (Pam) Dykstra, and Patti Dykstra; nineteen great-grandchildren; a brother and his wife, Gerben and Therissa Te Slaa, and a sister-in-law, Harriet Moss, all of Hull; and a brother-in-law, Siemon Rodenburgh, of Sioux Center.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Harlan Zoet; a brother and his wife, Gerrit and Etta Te Slaa; a sister and her husband, Sadie and Joe Wolfswinkel; and Zoet brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Paul and Coba Vander Ploeg, Walter and Christina Boogerd, Jake and Angeline Zoet, Sam and Bertha Attema, Joe and Kathryn Zoet, Gertrude Rodenburgh, and Arthur Moss.
Oolman Funeral Home obit.