Zoet, Kathryn Willemina, (Mrs. Johan (Joe) Andrew 1921-2009

ZOET, DEZEEUW, WIERSMA

Posted By: Mary Lou Verburg (email)
Date: 7/17/2014 at 16:12:36

Born: May 2, 1921 Orange City, Iowa
Died Feb. 9, 2009 Inwood, Iowa

Kathryn Willemina Zoet, 87, Hull, died Monday Feb. 9, at Fellowship Village in Inwood, IA.

Services were Thurs. Feb. 12, at First Reformed Church in Hull, with the Rev. Verlyn Boone officiating. Burial was at Hope Cemetery in Hull, under direction of Oolman Funeral Home in Hull.

Kathryn Zoet, daughter of Pleun and Jennie (Wiersma) De Zeeuw, was born May 2, 1921 in Orange City. She was raised in the Middleburg and Boyden area, where she attended Capel No. 9 country school.

She married Johan "Joe" Andrew Zoet on May 2, 1946, in Middleburg. They farmed in Hull, where she was a homemaker and assisted her husband. She also was employed at Pleasant Acres Nursing Home in Hull, and served as a foster grandma at Hope Haven in Rock Valley.

Mr. Zoet died July 22, 1989, in Rock Valley. She moved into Hull in Nov. 1989.

She was a member of First Reformed Church, where she belonged to the Ladies Aid.

She enjoyed reading, raising flowers, embroidering and baby-sitting her many grandchildren.

Survivors include four children, Harrietta Niemeyer of Hull, Philip and Karen Zoet of Hull, Lisa and Mark Van Der Brink of Rock Valley, and Lori and Steve Reintsma of Rock Valley; 19 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husbannd, Johan "Joe" Zoet; a daughter, Janith Faye Schuldt; three grandchildren, Jason Bakker, Katie Reintsma and Monica Zoet; a grandson-in-law, Ben Bagshaw; and a sister Ann and Peter Leusink.

Source: Northwest Iowa Review after Feb. 9 2009