Te Grotenhuis, Hattie (Mrs.Willard) 1906-2007

TEGROTENHUIS, BOUMA, GRITTERS

Posted By: Mary Lou Verburg Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/31/2015 at 11:57:47

Born: July 31, 1906 Rural Hull, Iowa
Died: October 8, 2007 Sioux Center, Iowa

Hattie Te Grotenhuis, 101, of Sioux Center died Monday, October 8, at the Royale Meadows Care Center of Sioux Center, Memorial services were Friday at 11 a.m. at Carmel Reformed Church of rural Rock Valley with the Rev. Mark Heijerman officiating, Interment was in Hope Cemetery of Hull.

Mrs. Te Grotenhuis was born July 31, 1906, to Bert and Mary (Gritters) Bouma on a farm southeast of Hull. She attended country school and continued at Hull Christian School. To further her sewing skills she attended sewing school when she was 16 years old. She married Willard Te Grotenhuis on February 1, 1928.
They lived for a short time by Perkins before they moved to their farm south of Carmel. He died in 1941 due to a farm accident.

A few years later she and her four children moved to Sioux Center. To support her family, she helped manage the farm and cooked at the Central Cafe and Dordt College. She also did laundry work at the Sioux Center Community Hospital and cleaned dorm rooms at Dordt College. She retired in her 70s. She was a lifelong member of Carmel Reformed Church. She also enjoyed the fellowship of entertaining people at her home after church. Her family was very important to her and she enjoyed the many visits she would receive from her family and church friends. She lived independendy until she was 97 years old.
She is survived by three sons, Gaynor Te Grotenhuis and Les and his wife Joan Te Grotenhuis, all of Sioux Center, and Marv and his wife Wanda Te Grotenhuis of Louisville, Colorado; son-in-law, Jerry Van't Hul and his wife Linda of Sheldon; 14 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; seven greatgreat-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Myrtle Van't Hul; daughter- in-law, Elsie Te Grotenhuis; four sisters, Delia Krommendyk, Bertha Van Surksum, Jeannette Van Beek and Gertrude Moss; and three brothers, Peter, John and Otto Bouma, The Te Grotenhuis family prefers memorials to be directed to the Carmel Reformed Church New Horizon Fund.

Source: Sioux Center News 10/17/2007