Scholten, Edward Cornelius 1925-2022

SCHOLTEN, VERHOEVEN, SOODSMA, KLAY, MENNING, RAAK

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting (email)
Date: 7/22/2022 at 18:16:19

Mr. Edward Scholten, age 97, of Sioux Center, formerly of Hull, passed away on Friday, July 15, 2022, at Crown Pointe Estates in Sioux Center.

A visitation with the family present will be held on Thursday, July 21, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Hull. A prayer service will take place on Friday, July 22, at 10:00am, at the funeral home, followed by interment at the Hope Cemetery in Hull. There will be a memorial service on Friday, at 11:00am, at the First Christian Reformed Church in Hull with the Rev. Timothy Ouwinga and the Rev. Carl Klompien officiating.

Edward Cornelius was born on January 28, 1925, in Orange City, the son of Lambert and Anna (Ver Hoeven) Scholten. He grew up in Hull and Sanborn, where he attended the Christian schools. As a young adult, he worked as a hired man for several area farmers until being drafted into the United States Army in 1944, serving under General Patton. On January 1, 1945, he was wounded in the Battle of The Bulge in Belgium, and was awarded several medals, including the Purple Heart. After spending six months in the hospital, he was medically discharged and returned to Northwest Iowa, where he started his own trucking business.

He was united in marriage to Irma L. (Soodsma) Klay on August 1, 1947, in Hull, where they made their home and raised their six children. Ed continued driving truck, often traveling long distances in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. After 42 years on the road, Ed retired, and spent another 22 years volunteering as a school bus driver for Hull Christian School and Western Christian High School. He once said, “Only God knows how many miles I drove, but by His Grace and the prayers of a Godly wife, I had no accidents or traffic violations.” Irma passed away on September 18, 2003, in Hull, after more than 56 years of marriage, the last of which Ed was her devoted caregiver.

Following his marriage to Eunice (Menning) Raak on May 28, 2005, Ed moved to Sioux Center, where the couple made their home. In 2019, he and Eunice became residents of the Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center, where Eunice passed away on February 22, 2021, after more than fifteen years of marriage.

Mr. Scholten was a member of the First Christian Reformed Church in Hull, where he had been baptized, made profession of his faith, and served as an elder and a Sunday school teacher. He also served on the Hull Christian School Board and was an active member of the Wegman-Koele American Legion Post in Hull, and the Northwest Camp of the Gideons. In later years, he volunteered at the Veterans Hospital in Sioux Falls as well as with the Sioux Center Home Health and Hospice and was a Chaplin at the Transport to Christ Chapel at the Flying J Travel Center in Sioux Falls.

Ed will be remembered as a kind, caring, devoted, sensitive, and generous man, who loved God with his whole heart and claimed Jesus as his Savior. He prayed daily for his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren; and his greatest desire was to be with them again in Heaven one day. Will you be there too?

Survivors include four daughters, Natalie, and her husband, Edwin Brummel, of Sioux Center; LaDonna Vander Ark, of Lafayette, Indiana; Lorna, and her husband, Dennis Dykstra, of Iowa City; and Debra, and her husband, Harlan Moret, of Tallahassee, Florida; a son, Edward Scholten, and his wife, Lenae, of Pipestone, Minnesota; a son-in-law, Roger Vande Griend, of Allendale, Michigan; seventeen grandchildren; forty great-grandchildren; eighteen great-great-grandchildren; a sister, Harriet, and her husband, Albert Van Zanten, of Rock Valley; five step-children, David Raak, and his wife, Julie, of Ryan; Marlene Raak, of Orange City; Lora, and her husband, Roger Haug, of Pella; Sandy, and her husband, Roger Langstraat, of Mesa, Arizona; and Rachel, and her husband, Lynn Gunderson, of Jefferson; and numerous step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.

In addition to his parents and wives, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Betty Vande Griend; a son-in-law, Glenn Vander Ark; a granddaughter, Barb Brummel; a grandson, Edward John Scholten; a great-granddaughter, Harper Bell; four brothers, Morris (Esther) Scholten, Bernard (Anna) Scholten, Andrew (Hilda and Helen) Scholten, and James (Greta) Scholten; and two sisters, Janet Scholten, Joan Scholten.

Memorials will be given to Gideons International.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.