Rozeboom, Esther (Mrs. Dick) 1928-2020

ROZEBOOM, RODENBURG, VANDERWERFF

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

Mrs. Esther Rozeboom, age 92, of Hull, passed away on Saturday, November 14, 2020, at the Friendly Horizons Retirement Community in Sioux Center.

There will be a funeral service on Thursday, November 19, at 2:00pm, at the First Christian Reformed Church in Hull. The Rev. Loren Kotman will officiate. Interment will follow the service at the Hope Cemetery in Hull. Visitation without the family will be on Wednesday, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Hull. There will also be a drive through visitation time on Wednesday, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at her son’s farm place north of Hull, 2758 Hickory Avenue. Please enter from the south driveway.

Esther was born on February 27, 1928, near Hull, the daughter of Robert and Theodora (Rodenburg) Vander Werff. She attended rural schools in Sioux County and graduated from the Western Christian High School in Hull. She then attended Westmar College in Le Mars and became a rural schoolteacher.

On May 5, 1949, she married Dick Rozeboom at the First Christian Reformed Church in Hull. Along with being a homemaker, she was a nurse’s aide at Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull for more than thirty years and a cook at the Hull Christian School for eight years. She brought great joy to the staff, residents, and students with her gentle smile and special touch. Dick passed away on April 15, 2013, in Sioux Center, after more than 64 years of marriage.

Mrs. Rozeboom was a member of the First Christian Reformed Church, where she had been a substitute teacher for the Friendship Bible classes.

Survivors include her three daughters and one son, Darlene Rozeboom Sohl Esquivel, of Santa Anna, El Salvador and Hull; Linda, and her husband, Richard Marcus, of Fallbrooke, California; Waneta and her husband, Marvin Van Tilburg, of Milford; and Richard Rozeboom, and his wife, Shelly, of Hull; twelve grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; a sister, Duck Lockhorst, of Hull; a brother-in-law, James Boogerd, of Hull; and Dick’s siblings, Nellie Rozeboom, of Inwood; Gert Rozeboom, of Rock Valley; Clazena Rus, of Sioux Center; Leonard Rozeboom, and his wife, Cathy, of Inwood; Gerrit Rozeboom, and his wife, Marie, of Michigan; Henry Rozeboom, of Doon; and Elizabeth, and her husband, Neil Boluyt, and Anthony Rozeboom, and his wife, Susan, all of Michigan.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by three brothers, five sisters, and many brothers and sisters-in-law in both the Vander Werff and Rozeboom families.

Memorials may be directed to the Hull Christian School.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.