Bartman, Ralph Allison, 1908-1972

BARTMAN, CLEVERINGA, VANDERWEERD, CROSBY

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/27/2010 at 21:56:05

Funeral services were held at Bethel Reformed Church in Sheldon Tuesday, November 14, for Ralph Allison Bartman, 64, who died Friday, November 14 [i.e., Nov. 10], al Bellflower, Calif., after a long illness. Services were conducted by the Rev. William B. Miller and burial was made in East Lawn Cemetery at Sheldon.

Mr. Bartman was born at Boyden April 20, 1908. He married Janet Vander Weerd August 12, 1936, in Rock Valley. He was a farmer, hog buyer and gardener most of his life.

He is survived by his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Thomas (Clarene) Stansbury of Bellflower; one son, Henry, of Bellflower; a foster son, Cpl. Emmett Crosby of Santa Ana, Calif.; three brothers, Peter and Herbert of Grand Rapids and Ted of Rock Valley; three sisters, Mrs. Ernest Block of Portland, Ore., Mrs. Gerrit Van Maanen of Doon, Mrs. Arthur Kooima of Rock Valley; four grandchildren.

Source: Sioux Center News, Nov. 23, 1972.

A summary of this obit, originally posted 8/25/2009, added that his parents were Herman Baartman and Theresa Cleveringa.

A similar obit in the Rock Valley Bee (Nov. 16, 1972) calls him Ralph "Roy" Bartman, and gives his birth date as April 10, 1908.