Pollema, Gertrude J. (Mrs. Peter) 1910-1999

POLLEMA, TESLAA, HUITINK

Posted By: Mary Lou Verburg Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/22/2015 at 18:54:57

Born: May 20, 1910 Rural Hull, Iowa
Died: November 10, 1999 Rock Valley, Iowa

Gertrude J. Pollema, 89 of Hull died Wed. Nov. 10 at Hegg Memorial Hospital in Rock Valley.

Services were at 10:30 a.m. Sat. at First Reformed Church in Hull with the Rev. Verlyn Boone officiating. Burial was in Hope Cemetery.

Mrs. Pollema was born May 20, 1910 in rural Hull, the daughter of Henry and Hattie (Huitink) Te Slaa. She married Peter Pollema on April 5, 1933, in Middleburg. The couple farmed at Hull until 1952, where they moved to a farm near Inwood. They retired into Inwood in 1960 and moved into Hull in 1976. He died July 9, 1985 in Rock Valley. She entered Valley Manor in Rock Valley in Sept. 1996.

She was a member of First Reformed Church, where she was active in women's organization and Homemakers Club. She enjoyed quilting, needlepoint, cross stitch and crocheting.

Survivors include two sons, Willis and his wife Evelyn of Bellflower, CA. and Glenn of Glenwood; two daughter and their husbands, Freida and James Vander Sluis and Helen and Lyle De Zeeuw, all of Rock Valley; a daughter-in-law and her husband Harriet and Lee Hanenburg of Edgerton, MN; 12 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Dora Zylstra and Henrietta and her husband Bill Hoksbergen, all of Hull.

She was preceded in death by a son, Henry; and a brother, Gerrit H. Te Slaa.

Source: Local paper after 11/1/1999