Rozeboom, Anna, Mrs. Dick L., 1878-1962

ROZEBOOM, ZOMERMAAND, WOBBEN, KOSTERS, FRANKEN

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Date: 8/24/2010 at 21:34:45

ROZEBOOM FUNERAL IS FRIDAY
Mrs. Dick Rozeboom Dies Here Tuesday

Funeral services will be held at the Netherlands Reformed church here at 2 p.m. Friday, April 13, for Mrs. Dick L. Rozeboom, 83, long-time Sioux Center resident, who passed away at the Sioux Center Community hospital Tuesday evening [April 10] following a lengthy illness. She had been confined to the hospital since fracturing a hip in November.

Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. J. Van Sweden of Rock Valley, in the absence of the Rev. C. Hegeman, and burial will be made in the Sioux Center Community cemetery under the direction of Co-operative Funeral Service of Sioux Center. A brief service attended by members of the immediate family will be held at the Little Chapel at 12:30 p.m. Friday.

Mrs. Rozeboom, nee Anna Zomermaand, was born at Drantha, Netherlands, August 13, 1878, the daughter of Egbert Zomermaand and Lummega Wobben. At the age of 14 she immigrated to the U.S. with her brother and sister. They lived for a time in Colorado and then moved to northwest Iowa.

Following her marriage to John Kosters of this area the couple lived at Doon. Mr. Kosters passed away in 1915. Later she was married to Arie Franken of this vicinity, and has since resided in Sioux Center.

She had one son, E. John Kosters, by her first husband, and one daughter and three sons by her second husband. Following the passing of Mr. Franken in 1948 she continued to reside in Sioux Center and was married on October 27, 1949 to Dick L. Rozeboom, who survives her.

Mrs. Rozeboom is also survived by her five children, E. J. Kosters of Sioux Center, Lucile (Mrs. Lewis M.) Wierda of Maurice, Henry A. Franken and Joe Franken of Sioux Center and Everette James Franken of Redlands, Calif. Other survivors include a brother, Egbert Zomermaand of Sioux Center, 23 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

Source: Sioux Center News, April 12, 1962.