Kuyper, Adrianna Mrs. Eugene died 2012

KUYPER, DEWIT

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/1/2012 at 10:32:17

Adrianna Kuyper
Adrianna Kuyper of Arkadelphia, Ark., died Saturday, Aug 25, one day before her 93rd birthday.
Funeral service is 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist Church of Arkadelphia with Pastor Carroll Jackson officiating. Burial is in Rest Haven memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Kuyper was born in Middleburg to Johanna and Neal De Wit. She attended elementary and high school in Sioux Center and Westmar College in Le Mars, IA. She was a teacher in a one-room country school for five years from 1937-1942. She married Eugene Kuyper in June 1942 and lived in Arkadelphia since 1952 when her husband joined the faculty at Henderson State University. She was a member of First United Methodist Church Choir for many years, and was also a member of the United Methodist Church Quilters, Susanna Wesley Circle, Clark County Retired Teacher Association and the PhilharmonicClub. She was in charge of the quality control department for Levi Strauss for 17 years. Her interests were quilting and other needlework, traveling, lots of reading since retirement in 1981, and spending time with her children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren. Survivors are Judy and Charles Jacob of Little Rock, David and the late Alice Faye Kuyper of Magnet Cove, Lee and Pauline Kuyper of Durham, N.C., Clark and Pam Kuyper of Arkadelphia and Karen and Bill Poe of Marietta, Ga.; siblings, Julius De Wit of Canby, Minn., Agnes Brawner of Galva, 111., Edith Lubach of Sioux Center, Helen and Loyd Vermeer of Sioux Center and Gene and Norma De Wit of Canby, Minn.; 12 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her husband of 68 years; her brother James De Wit; and a granddaughter.
Source: Sioux Center News, Sioux Center, IA., of Aug 29, 2012