Donkersloot, Ilene 1922-2013

DONKERSLOOT, KOSTER, SIEMENS

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 5/5/2013 at 13:03:56

Ilene Donkersloot

June 8, 1922 - April 30, 2013

Miss Ilene Donkersloot, age 90, of Hull, passed away on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at the Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull.

There will be a funeral service on Friday, May 3, at 3:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Hull. The Rev. Kevin Yurk will officiate. Interment will follow at the Hope Cemetery in Hull. Visitation will be after 5:00pm on Thursday, with the family present the hour before the service on Friday at the funeral home.

Ilene was the daughter of Nicholas and Marie (Koster-Siemens) Donkersloot. She attended country school and the Boyden school. She had the gift of music. She could play the piano by ear, and she taught herself to play the accordion, harpsichord and mouth organ. Ilene loved to play her accordion while her sister, Mae, played the piano.

In 1951, Ilene moved to Denver, Colorado, where she served as a housekeeper. To get around town, she learned the bus schedules. After her father passed away in 1966, Ilene and her mother travelled by bus to many places, including the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Springs, the stock show, several shopping malls downtown, and many parks.

In 1988, Ilene and her mother returned to Sioux County and settled in Hull, where her mother lived to be 106 years old. In March of 2010, Ilene became a resident of the Rock Rapids Health Centre, and in June of 2011, she transferred to the Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull.

Miss Donkersloot was currently a member of the First Reformed Church in Hull and a former member of the First Christian Reformed Church in Denver and the First Reformed Church in Boyden.

She enjoyed reading the area newspapers and listening to the local radio stations, especially Christian programs. She was always informed about the area’s activities and national politics.

Survivors include her sister and her husband, Mae and Clayton Vis, of Hull; a sister-in-law, Alma Donkersloot of Sanborn and twelve nephews and nieces.

She was preceded in death by a brother and his wife, Ray and Betty Donkersloot, who lived in Zeeland, Michigan; a brother, Ed Donkersloot, of Sanborn, and a nephew, Lyle Donkersloot.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home, Orange City, IA., obit.