Huizenga, Anna, 1852-1910

HUIZENGA, BOONSTRA

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Date: 1/22/2015 at 22:36:06

From the Rock Valley Bee, June 24, 1910:
[The paper is badly damaged, and chucks are missing out of the obit. In some cases the missing words could be supplied from the surrounding text.]

Death of [Mrs. Huizenga]

Mrs. John [Huizenga, nee Anna Boon]stra, wife [of Rev. John Huizenga], died at [her ho]me in [Rock Valley] Sunday afternoon June [19th], 1910 after an illness of several weeks duration at the age of fifty-eight years two months and twenty-one days. Although the end had been looked for several days before her death [missing words], nevertheless [it came as a] great shock to the [word missing] family and many other relatives and friends.

The subject of this sketch was born in the Netherlands March 28, 1852 where she spent the first four years of her life. Her parents then immigrated to America and settled at Zeeland, Michigan, where she spent her early years and grew to womanhood. She was married October 22, 1871, to Rev. John Huizenga. To this union were born seven children, all of whom with the exception of one, Mrs. Margaret Engelsman, who died at her home in Orange City eighteen months ago, were present at the bedside of their mother during her last illness. The children are Drs. Frank and Richard, John, Gertrude, and Elizabeth, of Rock Valley and Mrs. A. J. Muste of New York City.

Immediately after their marriage Rev. and Mrs. Huizenga went to Amelia, Virginia, where Mr. Huizenga labored as preacher and teacher in a Holland settlement and his wife worked diligently by his side. After five years of service in this place they received a call to go to Holland, Nebraska, to engage in similar work. Here they spent [missing]teen years. Later they moved to Rock Valley where they have [lived] nearly nineteen years.

The deceased was a me[mber of the] Reformed church and [several lines missing] a kind and loving mother, in her death a vacancy is left in the home which cannot be filled.

Funeral services were held from the Reformed church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Revs. J. Van Houte of Boyden and J. DeSpelder of Maurice. The services were largely attended. Among the relatives from a distance were Mrs. E. DeSpelder and Mr. Frank Boonstra, of Zeeland, Michigan, sister and brother of the deceased, and J. Andrenga of Pella, Iowa, a nephew. The bereaved family have the sincere sympathy of many friends.

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From the Alton Democrat, July 2, 1910:

At her home in Rock Valley on Sunday June nineteenth Mrs. John Boonstra Huizenga--wife of Rev. Huizenga--passed away after four months of severe suffering.

She was born in the Netherlands on March twenty eighth 1852 and came to the United States with her parents in 1856 who made their first home in the new country in New Zeeland Michigan. On October twentysecond 1871 she was married there to Rev. John Huizenga who then had a charge in Amelia, Virginia. In 1891 Rev. and Mrs. Huizenga came to Sioux county--locating in Rock Valley.

The deceased was a member of the Reformed church of which her husband was pastor. She was an active and earnest christian. Besides her husband deceased is survived by six children, Dr. Frank, Dr. Richard, John, Gertrude and Elizabeth of Rock Valley and Mrs. A. J. Muste of New York. She is also survived by her aged father D. Boonstra and three brothers and two sisters all of Zeeland Michigan. The children were all at the bedside when the end came.

Revs. J. Van Houte of Boyden, J. De Spelder of Maurice and A. W. De Jonge of Rock Valley had charge of the services. Services were held at the home and the Reformed church on Wednesday June twentysecond and interment was made in Valley View cemetery. Mrs. E. De Spelder and Frank Boonstra of Zeeland Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Van Oosterhout, Hattie Hospers, Mrs. D. Schalekamp and Miss Cynthia Schalekamp of Orange City were among those from a distance at the funeral which was largely attended.

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From the Sioux County Herald (Orange City), June 22, 1910:

Mrs. Huizenga, wife of Rev. John Huizenga, classical missionary, died at Rock Valley at three o'clock Sunday afternoon after a long illness. Miss Margaret Huizenga was called home before the expiration of her school work here to assist in caring for her mother, Miss Elizabeth and John are also at home. The older sons, Frank and Dick, are physicians and are both located in Rock Valley and one daughter, Anna, is the wife of Rev. Muste, pastor of a collegiate church in New York City. The former Mrs. Englesman of this place was also a daughter of Mrs. Huizenga. The funeral was held today at the First Reformed church of Rock Valley.

[Her husband's obit (posted separately) gives her name as Anna Boonstra.]