Hoekstra, Gertrude "Gertie" 1925-2017

HOEKSTRA, JAHN, VANDERMOLEN, DEVRIES

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 2/8/2017 at 10:28:57

Gertrude “Gertie” Hoekstra, age 91, of Maurice, Iowa, passed away on Friday, January 20, 2017, at Unity Point Health in Sioux City, Iowa.

Visitation will be at 4:00 p.m on Monday, with the family present from 5:00 p.m to 7:00 p.m, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City, Iowa. There will be a prayer service on Tuesday, January 24, at 9:30 a.m, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in rural Ireton, Iowa. Interment will follow the prayer service at St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery. A memorial service will then be held at 11:00 a.m, at Faith Lutheran Church in Orange City, with the Rev. David Daumer officiating.

Gertie was born on March 22, 1925, in rural Craig, Iowa; the daughter of Louis and Agnes (De Vries) Vander Molen. She was raised on several farms in the southwest Sioux County area. There she attended country schools and graduated from Maurice High School in 1942.

On February 15, 1946, she married Harold Lewis Jahn at the First Reformed Church in Maurice. They farmed west of Maurice, where she was a homemaker. After more than thirty years of marriage, Harold passed away in Orange City on August 22, 1976.

In 1978, Gertie moved into Maurice and started working at the Orange City Municipal Hospital, where she was a nurses’ aide for ten years.

On August 15, 1987, she married Harry Hoekstra on the farm near Maurice. After more than nineteen years of marriage, Harry passed away in Sioux City, Iowa, on September 7, 2006.

Gertie was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, where she was a superintendent in Sunday school for several years.

Survivors include her two daughters, Ruth, and her husband, Gary Grohs, of Sioux City; and Charlotte Kramer, of Wichita, Kansas; a daughter-in-law, Nanci Jahn, of Sioux Center, Iowa; seven grandchildren and their spouses, Jeff and Trish Grohs, Mark and Madai Grohs, Kristi and Rob Hey, Matthew and Suzy Jahn, Kyle and Lynne Jahn, Andrew and Colene Jahn, and Emily and Robbie Cundy; nineteen great-grandchildren; a sister, Leona Schat, of Rapid City, South Dakota; and a brother, John “Whimp” Vander Molen and a sister-in-law, Mary R. Vander Molen, both of LeMars, Iowa.

In addition to her two husbands, she was preceded in death by two sons, Rodney and David Jahn; two brothers, Lloyd and Allan Vander Molen; and a sister-in-law, Mary E. Vander Molen.

Memorials may be directed to the Orange City Area Home Health.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.