DeBoer, Clarence Alfred 1917-1994

DEBOER, MILLER

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Date: 7/7/2016 at 12:21:32

Rock Valley Bee June 15, 1994

Clarence De Boer
Clarence Alfred De Boer, 76, of Hull died Thursday, June 9.1994, at Valley' Manor in Rock Valley. Services were held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at (he First Reformed Church in Hull with the Rev. Gerald Vander Velde officiating. Burial was held in Hope Cemetery in Hull with Kraai- Oolman Funeral Home of Hull in charge of arrangements.

Mr. De Boer was born June 27,1917, in rural Hull, the son of Charles and Johanna (Hofmeyer) De Boer. He was raised in Hull and graduated from high school as salutatorian of his class. He served in the U.S. Army for two years during World War II. On August 6, 1944, he married Mary E. Miller at Yakima, Wash. After the war, they made their home in Hull. He was associated with AMPI for 33 years, employed at creameries in Hull, Sioux Center and Sanborn. He retired in June1982.

Mr. De Boer was a lifetime member of the First Reformed Church of Hull where he served as Sunday school treasurer for 47 years and was a member of the Men's Brotherhood. He also was a member of the American Rose Society in Sioux Falls, So. Dak., and the Hull Kiwanis. He was a former member of the American Legion.

Survivors include his wife, two sons, Jerry L. and his wife, Leona of Hull and David J. of St. Paul, Minn.; two daughters and their husbands, Nattallee A. and Ken Van Oort of Rock Valley and Barbara M. and Lynn Grotluschcnof George; nine grandchildren; a brother and his wife, Gilbert and Etta of Colorado Springs, Colo.; two sisters, Ellen De Leeuw and Bernice Vande Griend and her husband, Andy, all of Hull; and a sister-in-law, Berneice De Boer of Adrian, Minn. He was preceded in death by his parents;a grandson, Travis Van Oort; and three brothers, Dowie, August and GerriL A memorial has been established in . his name with the First Reformed Church Sunday school.