Harskamp, Hermina Mrs. Gerrit 1908-2006

HARSKAMP, TOP, WIEKAMP

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg (email)
Date: 2/1/2012 at 08:58:40

Hermina Harskamp
Born: July 3, 1908
Died: March 8, 2006
Age: 97 years, 8 months, 5 days
Funeral Service; March 11, 2006, Memorial Funeral Home, Sioux Center, Iowa
Interment : Memory Gardens Cemetery, Sioux Center, Iowa
Hermina (Top) Harskamp was born July 3, 1908 to John and Hattie (Wiekamp) Top in Bemis, South Dakota. Hermina moved to the Sioux Center area in 1926. She was joined in marriage to Gerrit Harskamp on September 9, 1930. The couple farmed in the Lebanon, Maurice, and Ireton areas until retiring and moving to Sioux Center. Gerrit passed away December 31, 1994
ending their marriage of 64 years. When Gerrit and Hermina moved to Sioux Center, Hermina worked in the Sioux Center Community Hospital kitchen for 13 years.
Left to cherish her memories are her children: John and Allie Harskamp of Atwater, California, Gerald and Alice Harskamp of Sioux Center, Harriet and Evert De Bondt, Sioux Center, Robert and Cheryl Harskamp of Frankston, Texas, Kenneth and Dahene Harskamp of Ida Grove, Iowa and Dave and Ha Harskamp of Sioux Center; 18 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Alyda Vande Vegte, Agnes Harskamp both of Sioux Center; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gerrit; sister, Minnie Zwiers; daughters-in-law: Madeline, Phyllis, Gayle; and great grandson, Christopher Rogers.
Source: Memorial Funeral Home, Sioux Center, IA., obit.