Smit, Margaret (Mrs. Sam) 1911-1999

SMIT, OLDENKAMP, UITTENBOGAARD, KLYNSMA

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-Volunteer
Date: 6/21/2014 at 00:30:25

Source: Sioux Land Press (!-13,1999)

Born: August 18, 1911
Died: January 9, 1999

Margaret Klynsma Smit, 87, of Hospers died on Saturday, January 9, at the Sioux Center Community Hospital’s nursing facility. Services were this morning, Tuesday, at the First Christian Reformed Church in Hospers, with the Rev. Duane Tinklenberg officiating. Burial was at the Hospers Cemetery.

Mrs. Smit was born on August 18, 1911, at Hospers, the daughter of Nick and Grace (Oldenkamp) Uittenbogaard. She married John Klynsma on January 31, 1934, in Hospers. He died on January 25, 1970. She married Sam Smit on October 19, 1983. The couple lived in Sheldon. He died non November 15, 1989.

Mrs. Smit was active in the Hospers Christian School’s “Trash for Cash” program.

In 1990, she moved to the Sheldon Christian Retirement Home. In 1995, she moved to the Sioux Center Community hospital nursing wing.

Survivors include four children and their spouses, John Norman and Dorothy Klynsma of Hospers, Frank and Marge Klynsma of Sioux City, Joleen and Charles Vande Kamp of Sioux Center and Carolyn and Danny Heltenberg of Yuma, Colorado; 18 grandchildren, Pam, Deb, Ed, Roxie, Randy, John, Don, Cathy, Steve, Brenda and Ken Klynsma; Arlin, Carl, Dave and Lynn Vande Kamp and Dana, Jodeen and Mandy Heltenberg; 46 great-grandchildren; six step-children and their spouses, Ed, and Elaine Kats, Arvin and Carol Smit, Aletha and Ivan Blom, Sandy and Verlyn Baker, Paul and Mary Smit; many step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren; brothers and sisters and their spouses, William and Sarah Uittenbogaard of Lake Park, Arlene Kramer of Hospers and Louis and Chris Kroon of Rock Rapids, and Herm and Winifred Langstraat of Orange City; in-laws, Winnie Smit, William Smit, Winnie Poppema, Jennie Waanders and Gerrit Van Bruggen, all of Sheldon, and Henry and Nettie Mellema of Orange City; and nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by two sisters, Tena Kroon and Grace Langstraat, and one one brother-in-law, Jake Kramer