Kosters, Sadie Germina (Mrs. William Henry) 1919-2017

KOSTERS, DEVRIES, RIKKERS

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/15/2017 at 13:33:06

Mrs. Sadie Kosters, age 98, of Orange City, passed away on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, at the Sunrise Retirement Community in Sioux City.

There will be a funeral service on Friday, May 5, at 10:30am, at the First Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. Mark Haverdink will officiate. Interment will follow the lunch at the Hope Cemetery in Hull. Visitation will be after 5:30pm on Thursday, with the family present from 5:30pm to 7:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Sadie Germina was born on April 20, 1919, in rural Hull, the daughter of William and Tillie (De Vries) Rikkers. She was raised in rural Hull. She graduated from the Sioux Center High School and attended the Westmar College in Le Mars.

On February 28, 1941, she married William Henry Kosters in Hull. They made their home mostly in Orange City and were later divorced. She was a school teacher, a housekeeper at the Orange City Municipal Hospital for twenty years, worked at K-Products in Orange City for 7 ½ years, and cared for her mother for four years.

In September of 2005, Mrs. Kosters became a resident of the Pioneer Memorial Home in Orange City.

She was a member of the First Reformed Church. She enjoyed crocheting, gardening, and making crafts.

Survivors include her three daughters and their husbands, Tylene and Allen Zevenbergen, of Sioux City; Shirley and Alton Harrell, of Omaha, Nebraska; and LaVonne and Peter Hoekstra, of Sioux Center; a daughter-in-law, Lila Kosters, of Orange City; eleven grandchildren, Deb (Ray) Lynn, of Nebraska City, Nebraska; Michelle (Charlie) Nelson, of Le Mars; Brad (Zanniell) Zevenbergen, of Elk Point, South Dakota; Kathie (Mike) Trover, of Sergeant Bluff; Jodie (Branden) Utesch, of Orange City; Doug (Jodi) Kosters, of Everly; Chris (Erin) Harrell, of Omaha; Nathan Harrell, of Sandpoint, Idaho; Matthew Harrell, of Omaha; Brian Hoekstra, of Sioux Center; and Amy (Benji) Hulstein, of Orange City; 31 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Betty Rikkers, of Sioux Center.

She was preceded in death by a son, Harold Kosters, a great-grandchild, Bailey Kosters; a brother, Henry Rikkers; and two sisters, Gertrude (John) Koerselman and Thelma (Herman) Dekkinga.

Memorials may be directed to the church for Kid’s Connection.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.