Heemstra, Joann I. Mrs. Larry 1938-1984

HEEMSTRA, WIERSEMA

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 6/19/2011 at 14:58:07

From the Sioux County Capital of Nov 8, 1984
Joann I. Heemstra, 46, of rural Primghar died Friday in a hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., after a long Illness.
Services were at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the American Reformed Church in Primghar. The Rev.
David Landegent officiated. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Primghar under direction of the Gaudian-Eldridge Funeral Home in
frimghar.
Mrs. Heemstra, the former Joann Wiersema, was born Sept. 4, 1938, near Orange City. She attended Schools in Newkirk and graduated
from Northwestern Academy in Orange City iin 1955. She graduated from Northwestern Junior College in Orange City in 1957. On Sept. 2,
1959, she married Larry Heemstra at Middleburg. The couple farmed northeast of Primghar.
Mrs. Heemstra was a member of the American Reformed Church where she was a Sunday School
teacher for many years and was a member of the Women's Guild.
Survivors, include her husband; four sons, Jerry of Pella, Dennis, Greg and Todd, all of Primghar; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Wiersema of Orange City; one brother, Ivan of Cherokee and one sister, Mrs. Dale (Mary) Wurpts of Orange City