Bruinsma, David, 1935-1958

BRUINSMA

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/11/2010 at 21:13:40

FINAL RITES HELD TUESDAY FOR DAVID BRUINSMA

Funeral services were held at the First Reformed church here at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday for David Bruinsma, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bruinsma, who died at the Sioux Center Community hospital Sunday [Oct. 19] following a several months' illness with cancer.

A brief service was held at the Little Chapel preceding the service at the church. The Co-op Funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Services were conducted by the Rev. Marion Klaaren, pastor of Central Reformed church, of which David was a member, and burial was made in the Sioux Center Community cemetery.

David was born July 16, 1935 at Sioux Center. He graduated in 1953 from Sioux Center high school, where he was a four-year letterman in baseball and basketball. The basketball team on which he was guard was a state tournament contender in 1953.

David was in the army from November, 1954 to September, 1957. During his first two years of military service he played army football, basketball and baseball. For one year before his discharge he managed an army baseball team in Germany, leading them to a military league pennant. He had been signed this spring to play baseball on the Duluth-Superior team of the Chicago White Sox farm system.

He was to have reported April 4. Shortly before that he entered the Veterans administration hospital at Sioux Falls. Later he was transferred to the Veterans administration hospital at Minneapolis, where he underwent surgery for cancer. He returned to his home in Sioux Center in September and entered the local hospital October 13.

Survivors include his parents; nine brothers, Byron, Earl Wayne, Stanley, Sam, jr., Robert, Randy, Joel, Paul and Frank; three sisters, Alda, Nancy and Judy, all of Sioux Center.

Source: Sioux Center News, Oct. 23, 1958.
The obituary includes a photograph.

Similar obituaries appeared in the Sioux County Capital (Oct. 23) and the Rock Valley Bee (Oct. 23).