Bruxvoort, Marilyn (Mrs.Gerald Wayne) 1935-2018

BRUXVOORT, WESTRA, MOSS

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:36

Mrs. Marilyn Bruxvoort, age 82, of Orange City, passed away on Friday, February 9, 2018, at the Prairie Ridge Care Center in Orange City.

There will be a memorial service on Monday, February 12, at 11:00am, at the First Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. Mark Haverdink and the Rev. Timothy Breen will officiate. Interment will be prior to the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. There will be a family prayer service on Monday, at 10:00am, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Visitation will be after 4:00pm on Sunday, with the family present from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, at the funeral home.

Marilyn Joyce was born on June 6, 1935, in Rock Valley, the daughter of Marion and Henrietta (Westra) Moss. She was raised at Rock Valley and Middleburg. She attended a country school at Middleburg and the Newkirk High School.

On January 3, 1958, she married Gerald Wayne Bruxvoort at the Free Grace Reformed Church in Middleburg. They made their home mostly in Orange City, where she was a homemaker. She was employed at an overall factory in Sheldon, at the food service of Northwestern College in Orange City, and at Natural Beauty Growers at Boyden. She also cleaned houses.

Mrs. Bruxvoort was a member of the First Reformed Church.

She enjoyed baking for others, especially banana bread, gardening, playing games, and playing piano. She dearly loved her family and often talked about her son, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Survivors include her husband of more than sixty years; her son and his wife, Glenn and Melanie Bruxvoort, of College Station, Texas; six grandchildren; Andrew Bruxvoort, and his wife, Katie Beth; of Round Rock, Texas; Ellen Bruxvoort, of Austin, Texas; Philip Bruxvoort, of Austin; Cody Hampton, of Huntsville, Texas; Megan Hampton, of Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Cullen Hampton, of Huntsville; five great-grandchildren; and a sister and her husband, Joan and Herlon Vander Schaaf, of Sioux Center.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two sisters and four brothers, Agnes, and her husband, Marion Wielenga; Peter Moss, and his wife, Darlene; the Rev. Albert Moss, and his wife, Aileen; James Moss, and his wife, Berniece; Eugene Moss, and his wife, Marla; and Charlene, and her husband, Rodney Vanden Brink.

Memorials may be directed to the church building fund.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.