Vermeer, Martha Mrs. John 1903-1992

VERMEER, HOEKSTRA, MULDER

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Date: 12/25/2011 at 15:17:42

MARTHA VERMEER
Mrs. Martha Vermeer, age 89, of Boyden, died Wednesday, July 1, 1992 at the Orange City Municipal Nursing Home.
Martha was born March 7, 1903 at Orange City, the daughter of Gerrit and Gertrude (Hoekstra) Mulder. She was raised at Orange City.
On Feb. 9, 1927, she married John Vermeer at Orange City. They farmed at Boyden, moving into town in 1953. Mr. Vermeer died July 8, 1984 at Boyden. In 1987 Mrs. Vermeer became a resident of the nursing home.
She was a member of the First Reformed Church of Boyden where she had been a Sunday School and catechism teacher and was active in the women’s organizations. She also belonged to the Women’s Citizenship Club of Boyden.
Survivors include her two daughters, Luella and her husband Casey Smit of Boyden,and Marjorie Chassels of Cherry Hill, N.J.; two daughters-in-law, Jo Vermeer of Boyden and Bertha Vermeer
of Sioux Center, 13 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two sons, Edgar and Harvey, two grandsons, and five brothers and three sisters.
Funeral services were held Saturday, Ju1y 4,1992 at the First Reformed Church of Boyden. The Rev. Mark Volkers officiated. Interment followed at Sheridan Township Cemetery at Boyden, under the direction of the Van Etten-OolmanVan Gelder Funeral Home in Orange City.
Source: Local newspaper after July 1, 1992.