Bouma, Louis Rev. 1899-1994

BOUMA, HEERINGA, VANROEKEL

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Date: 9/11/2013 at 21:23:09

Sioux Center News 7-21-1994

Born: 10-25-1899
Died: 7-13-1994

Rev. Louis Bouma, 94, of Sioux Center died Wednesday, July 13, 1994 at the Sioux Center Community Hospital Health Center.

Services were held Saturday, July 16 at 11:15 a.m. at Covenant Christian Reformed Church, Sioux Center. Rev. Daniel De Groot and Rev. Arthur Schoonveld officiated. Interment was in Hope Cemetery, Hull under direction of the Memorial Funeral Home, Sioux Center.

Louis was born on Oct. 25, 1899 in Hull to Otto and Trientje (Heeringa) Bouma. He graduated from Northwestern Academy, Grundy Academy, Calvin College and Calvin Seminary. On July 30, 1926 he married Hermina Van Roekel in Hull. Rev. Bouma taught for 10 years in Chicago. He was pastor of churches in Artesia and Ontario, Calif.; Inwood, Sussex, N.J.,andDispatch, Kan. In 1969 he retired in Sioux Center. He was a member of Covenant Christian Reformed Church in Sioux Center. He loved to read and garden, and enjoyed traveling.

Survivors include his wife Hermina; six daughters: Marion and her husband John Tiemeyer of Tallahassee, Fla., Bea and her husband Ted Bloemhof of San Antonio, Tex., Esther and her husband Bill Nawyn of Troy, Ill., Carol and her husband Arnold Koekkoek of Sioux Center, Anita and her husband Arthur Schoonveld of Grandville, Mich., and Rayda of West Hartford, Ct.; 20 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; one brother, Lambert and his wife Wilma of Hull; two sisters, Alice Dooyema of Edgerton, Minn., and Hattie Vander Heide of Artesia, Calif.; four sisters-in-law: Theodora Guest of Cary, Ill., Jen Bouma of Orange City, Dena Bouma of Ontario, Calif., and Elizabeth Bouma of Rock Valley.

He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, three sisters and one grandson.