Kempema, Sophie (Mrs. Charles) 1898-1989
KEMPEMA, MEENDERING, SMEENK
Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-Volunteer
Date: 3/2/2015 at 20:54:28
Source: Sioux Center News (5-10-1989)
Birth: November 18, 1898
Death: May 2, 1989Sophie Kempema, 90, of Rock Valley died Tuesday, May 2, at Valley Manor Nursing Home in Rock Valley.
Services were at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4, at First Christian Reformed Church in Rock Valley with the Rev. Paul Bakker officiating. Burial was in Valley View Cemetery.
The former Sophie Meendering was born November 18, 1898, in Selligan, the Netherlands. She came to the Untied States and to the Rock Valley area in 1915. She married Charles Kempema in Rock Valley September 10, 1920. The couple farmed near Rock Valley, George and Hull and retired to Rock Valley in 1967. She moved to Valley Manor in May 1986.
Survivors include her husband; two sons, Ray and John, both of Rock Valley; three daughters, Gert Blankespoor of Rock Valley, Hermie Hall of St. Louis, Missouri, and Margaret Van Otterloo of Hull; a sister, Roelfien Luth of the Netherlands; 28 grandchildren; 51 great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Jan Albert and Geertje (Smeenk) Meendering; an infant great-grandson, Matthew John Kempema; a great-granddaughter, Sally Schelling and ten brothers and sisters.
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