Humme, Peter Wayne 1934-2021

HUMME, VOS, MULDER

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/4/2022 at 14:02:20

Mr. Peter Humme, age 87, of Orange City, passed away on Monday, December 27, 2021, at the Orange City Area Health System.

There will be a memorial service on Friday, December 31, at 10:30am, 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 memorial service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. There will be a prayer service on Friday, at 9:30am, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. Visitation will be after 3:00pm on Thursday, with the family present from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at the funeral home.

Peter Wayne was born on February 12, 1934, on a farm north of Hull, one of eight children born to Arnold and Cornelia (Vos) Humme. He grew up in rural Hull and attended country school through the eighth grade. At the age of twelve, Pete was diagnosed with polio, and shortly after underwent several surgeries to correct the effects of the disease before graduating from the Hull High School.

He was united in marriage to Sylvia Mae Mulder on March 24, 1953. They briefly made their home on the Humme farm until moving into Hull, where they raised their family. Pete accepted a job with Tensen Implement, the local John Deere dealer, assembling new machinery. He gradually took on more and more responsibility at work, eventually purchasing the dealership in the 1970’s, along with three friends and coworkers. They soon moved the dealership to a new building near Doon and changed the name to Tri-State Implement. In the early nineties, the dealership was sold, and he and Sylvia moved to Orange City, although Pete continued to make the drive back to Doon to work as a salesman well into his sixties.

Mr. Humme was a member of the First Reformed Church in Orange City, and a former member of the First Reformed Church in Hull, where he served on the consistory, taught Sunday school and catechism classes, and volunteered as a youth group sponsor. Pete and Sylvia enjoyed traveling to numerous countries and spending many winters in Arizona. He liked to play golf and go bowling, and enjoyed spending time with his family and friends, particularly during his daily coffee time.

Those who will miss him the most include his wife of more than 68 years, Sylvia, of Orange City; a daughter and her husband, Vicky and Arne Vermaat, of Orange City; a son and his wife, Larryl and Carol Humme, of Mokena, Illinois; four grandchildren, Heather, and her husband, Paul Beekhuizen, of Council Bluffs; Melissa Nystrom, of Carrol; Nathan Humme, and his wife, Jill, of Jenison, Michigan; and Andrew Humme, and his wife, Stephanie, of Orland Park, Illinois; eight great-grandchildren, Norah and Kyle Beekhuizen; Zachary, James, and Leah Nystrom; and Gwendolyn, Finnegan, and Benjamin Humme; a ninth great-grandchild on the way; two sisters, Mary, and her husband, Harlan Van’t Hul, of Rock Valley; and Donna Humme, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; two sisters-in-law, Wilma Humme, of Rock Valley; and Ella De Stigter, of Sioux Center; two brothers-in-law, Alan Vander Meulen, of Ocheyedan; and the Rev. Alvin Mulder, and his wife, Dorothy, of Palm Springs, California; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

In addition to his parents, and his wife’s parents, Albert and Cynthia Mulder, he was preceded in death by five siblings, Nelverne, and her husband, Ted Marra; John Humme, and his wife, Mariann; Norma Vander Meulen; James Humme; and David Humme; five of Sylvia’s siblings and their spouses, Raymond and Carrie Mulder; Dorothy and Benjamin De Leeuw; Henrietta and Benjamin Koele; Thomas and Bernice Mulder; and Marie and Vernon Van Ommeren; as well his wife’s infant sister, Ella Mulder.

Memorials will be given to the Orange City Area Home Health and Hospice.

Source: Oolman Funeral Homes online obituary.