Hubenette, Glenn H. 1930-2017

HUBENETTE, KAETHER, TOLLEFSON, FEDDERS, FOLKEMA

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/19/2017 at 16:11:47

Mr. Glenn Hubenette, age 86, of Orange City, passed away on Monday, January 16, 2017, at the Spencer Hospital.

There will be a funeral service on Friday, January 20, at 2:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. The Rev. Gary Hegstad will officiate. Interment will be at the Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at a later date. Visitation with the family will be after 1:00pm on Friday at the funeral home.

Glenn Hiram was born on December 8, 1930, in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Robert Assar Gideon and Evelyn (Kaether) Hubenette. He was raised in St. Paul, where he attended the Hamlin University. He served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict, when he received a Purple Heart.

In 1960, he married Marilyn Mae Tollefson in St. Paul. In 1966, they moved to Parkers Prairie, Minnesota, where he farmed. That marriage ended in 1979.

In 1984, Glenn moved to Orange City, where he was a driver for Hope Haven in Rock Valley. On May 4, 1985, he married Harriet Ann (Fedders) Folkema in Alton. She passed away on February 24, 2016, in Sioux City.

In August of 2016, he became a resident of the Community Memorial Health Center in Hartley.

Mr. Hubenette was a member of the First Reformed Church in Maurice, the Triangle Masonic Lodge in Sioux City, and the Pressman-Kosters American Legion Post in Orange City. He enjoyed fishing and playing his guitar.

Survivors include a son and his wife, Karl and Trina Hubenette, of Alexandria, Minnesota; three daughters, Karen Jensen, of Urbandale; Dawn, and her husband, Jerry Wiltgen, and Paige Hubenette, all of Orange City; seven grandchildren, Jesse Hubenette, and his wife, Jessica; Shanna Hubenette, Kyla Hubenette, Dustin Folkema, T. J. Wiltgen, Hannah Wiltgen, and Nicole Jensen; two great-grandchildren, Madison Roering and Isabelle Hubenette; and Harriet’s two sisters and two brothers and their spouses, Nelvina De Haan and Jeanette and Ernest Wielenga, all of Orange City; Mike and Audrey Fedders, of George; and Bernie and Irma Fedders, of Orange City.

In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by three brothers, Robert, Merlin, and Donald Hubenette; and two brothers-in-law, Gerald and George Fedders.

Memorials may be directed to the Pressman-Kosters American Legion Post.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.