Douma, Arvilla (Mrs. John) 1900-1985

DOUMA, KUIPER

Posted By: Janet Brown - volunteer (email)
Date: 7/29/2013 at 10:29:08

From the July 10, 1985 Sioux County Index:

MRS. ARVILLA L. DOUMA

Mrs. Arvilla L. Douma, 84, of Hull died Saturday, June 29. in a nursing home in Hull after a long illness.

Services were Monday, July 1, in the First Reformed Church of Hull. The Rev. Gerald Vande Velde officiated. Burial was in Hope Cemetery under the direction of the Kraai-Oolman Funeral Home of Hull.

Mrs. Douma, the former Arvilla Kuiper, was born Aug. 18, 1900, in Boyden. She married John Douma Dec. 23, 1925, at Boyden. He died May 30, 1968. She was a member of the First Reformed Church where she was organist for 35 years and a member of the Martha Circle.

Survivors include two sons, Arvin of Killeen, Texas, and Bertus of Dumfries. Va.; one daughter, Mrs. Larry P. (Estelle) Kimmel of Gladstone, Mo.: one brother, Harold A. Kuiper of Derby, Kan.; 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren