Franken, Darlene F., Mrs. John A., 1930-2001

FRANKEN, SANDBULTE, TERHORST

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Date: 8/23/2010 at 20:53:28

DARLENE F. FRANKEN

Darlene Franken, 70, of Sioux Center died Wednesday, April 25, 2001, at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Fla.

A funeral service was held on Monday, April 30 at 10:30 a.m. at the First Reformed Church in Sioux Center. The Rev. Arnold Punt officiated. Burial followed at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Sioux Center under the direction of the Oolman Funeral Home (Vander Ploeg Chapel) in Sioux Center.

Darlene was born Aug. 16, 1930, at Sioux Center, the daughter of Joe and Johanna (Ter Horst) Sandbulte. She was raised at Sioux Center. On Feb. 10, 1949, she married John A. Franken in Sioux Center. They made their home in Sioux Center where she was a homemaker and assisted her husband in the operation of Johnny's TV and Electric which later became Interstates Electric and Engineering. For 40 years the couple spent their summer weekends at Okoboji and wintered in Florida for 20 years.

Mrs. Franken was a member of the First Reformed Church and its Lydia Circle. She was a volunteer at the Sioux Center Community Hospital and she enjoyed crocheting and butterflies.

Survivors include her husband, John; five children, Marlowe Franken and his wife Bonnie of Sioux Center, James L. Franken and his wife Nancy of Sioux Center, Janna and her husband Dr. Gregory Holmes of Miami, Fla., John Mark Franken and his wife Mary of Sioux Center and Doreen Franken of Stow, Ohio; four grandchildren, Jessica and her husband Tony Stratman, Kayti Holmes, Jaymi and her husband Justin Vandewater and Gabriel Franken; a great-grandson, Stefan Stratman; two brothers and their wives, Dr. Gerald and Mary Sandbulte of Napa, Calif., and Arlon and Joyce Sandbulte of Sioux Center; her stepmother, Alice Sandbulte of Sioux Center; a half-sister and her husband, Julie and Henk Van Arkel of Burlingame, Calif.; and a step-brother and his wife, Robert and Diane Sandbulte of Escondido, Calif.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two stillborn children and a stepbrother, Michael Sandbulte.

Source: Sioux Center News, May 5, 2001.
The same or a similar obituary was published in the Sioux County Capital Democrat (May 3, 2001) and the Siouxland Press (May 2, 2001).