Rozeboom, Anna (Mrs. Dick) 1878-1962

ROZEBOOM, ZOMERMAAND, WOBBEN, KOSTERS

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke--Volunteer
Date: 12/13/2016 at 08:17:39

Source: Sioux Center News (4-12-1962)

Born: August 13, 1878
Died: 1962

ROZEBOOM FUNERAL IS FRIDAY--MRS. DICK ROZEBOOM DIED HERE TUESDAY

Funeral services will be held at the Netherlands Reformed Church here at 2 P.M. Friday, April 13, for Mrs. Dick Rozeboom, 83, long time Sioux Center resident who passed away at the Sioux Center Community Hospital Tuesday evening following a lengthy illness. She had been confined to the hospital since fracturing a hip in November.

Funeral services will be conducted by the Reverend J. Van Sweden of Rock Valley, in the absence of the Reverend C. Hegeman, and burial will be made in the Sioux Center Community Cemetery under the direction of the Co-operative Funeral Services of Sioux Center. A brief service attended by members of the immediate family will be held at the Little Chapel at 12:30 P.M. Friday.

Mrs. Rozeboom, nee Anna Zomermaand, was born at Drantha, Netherlands, August 13, 1878, the daughter of Egbert Zomermaand and Lammega Wobben. At the age of 14 she immigrated to the United States with her brother and sister. They lived for a time in Colorado and then moved to Northwest Iowa.

Following her marriage to John Kosters of this area the couple lived at Doon. Mr.Kosters passed away in 1915. Later she was married to Arie Franken of this vicinity and has since resided in Sioux Center.

She had one son, E. John Kosters, by her first husband, and one daughter and three sons by her second husband. Following the passing of Mr. Franken in 1948 she continued to reside in Sioux Center and was married on October 27, 1949, to Dick L. Rozeboom, who survives her.

Mrs. Rozeboom is also survived by her five children: E.J. Kosters of Sioux Center, Lucile (Mrs. Lewis M.) Wierda of Maurice, Henry Franken and Joe Franken of Sioux Center and Everette James Franken of Redlands, California.

Other survivors include a brother, Egbert Zomermaand of Sioux Center, 23 grand-children and 11 great-grandchildren.