Mulder, Shirley 1941-2017

MULDER, DENHARTOG, VANVOORST, CAMP

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:35

Mrs. Shirley Mulder, age 76, of Hull, passed away on Monday, August 14, 2017, at the Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center.

There will be a private funeral service at the Oolman Funeral Home in Hull. The Rev. Loren Kotman will officiate. Interment will follow the service at the Memory Gardens Cemetery in Sioux Center.

Shirley Ann was born on May 26, 1941, at Sioux Center, the daughter of Ernest Y. and Ann (Den Hartog) Mulder. She graduated from high school in 1959.

In October 1959, she married Teunis Van Voorst and together they moved to South Sioux City, Nebraska. Teunis worked for an electrical contractor out of Sioux City, which required they move to each new job, so their first home was a New Moon Trailer Home. They lived in Bloomfield, Nebraska, Vermillion, South Dakota, and finally settled in Brookings, South Dakota, where Shirley’s father built them their first home. Together they had three boys, Terry Evan, Scott Allen, and Yvon Brad.

In February of 1972, Teunis and Shirley separated, and she and the boys moved back to Sioux Center. There she became a member of the First Reformed Church and began working in the Sioux Center city office as a bookkeeper. In 1975, their marriage ended and Shirley began working at the Area Education office, while taking night classes at Western Iowa Technical Institute for computer languages. With that training, she worked for IBM installing computer systems and training operators on computer operations.

In 1979, Shirley married Warren Camp and moved to Wichita, Kansas, where she worked for an attorney’s office and installed a computer system. After Warren became disabled in an accident at work, they moved to Ames to be closer to Shirley’s parents. That marriage ended in 1998.

On February 2, 2007, his Heavenly Father took Scott home to heaven after being exposed to chemicals while serving in the United States Air Force in Afghanistan. He passed away at his home with his family. On December 12, 2012, his Heavenly Father took Terry home to heaven after a battle with lung cancer. He also passed away at home with his family.

In 2010, Brad built Shirley a home in Hull, so that she could be close to him, and he could take care of her.

Survivors include her son Brad Van Voorst, of Hull; eight grandchildren, Jason Van Voorst, of Sioux Center; Barry Van Voorst, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Travis Van Voorst, of Sioux Center; Casey Rudzena, of Indian Trail, North Carolina; Kelly Van Voorst, of Tucson, Arizona; Kaylee Van Voorst, of Sioux City; Brandy Van Voorst, of Iowa City; and Tory Van Voorst, of Hull; six great-grandchildren; a brother, Arlyn Mulder, and a sister, Roxi Harlow, both of Sioux Center.

In addition to her parents and sons, Terry and Scott, she was preceded in death by a brother, Ronald Y. Mulder.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.