Scholten, John Gerrit 1932-2023

SCHOLTEN, VOOGD, BOOGERD

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/9/2024 at 13:11:12

Mr. John G. Scholten, age 90, of Hull, passed away on Monday, December 18, 2023, at the Crown Pointe Estates in Sioux Center.

A visitation with the family present will be held on Thursday, December 21, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at the First Christian Reformed Church in Hull. A family prayer service will take place on Friday, December 22, at 10:00am, at the church, followed by interment at the Hope Cemetery in Hull. There will be a memorial service on Friday, at 11:00am, at the church with the Rev. Aaron Greydanus and the Rev. Timothy Ouwinga officiating. The Oolman Funeral Home in Hull is in charge of arrangements.

John Gerrit, the son of Gerrit and Minnie (Voogd) Scholten, was born on December 23, 1932, on his family’s farm west of Boyden. He grew up on the farm and was a student at the Hull Christian School before graduating from Western Christian High School in Hull.

On January 14, 1955, he was united in marriage to Agnes Boogerd at the First Reformed Church in Hull. They made their home in Hull, where they raised their four children and John worked as a plumber. He was employed by Plasier Plumbing and Heating for eleven years until starting his own business, Scholten Plumbing and Heating and Pump and Well Work, where he enjoyed working well into his eighties. For the past four and a half months, John was a resident of Crown Pointe Estates.

John was a lifelong member of the First Christian Reformed Church in Hull and served as both a deacon and an elder. He was also on the board of the Hull Christian School and of Western Christian High School. He taught Friendship Bible for many years and also played Bingo at Pleasant Acres Care Center as a volunteer, as well as helping with many other volunteer activities, with many organizations. John was an avid ping pong player in his younger years and loved riding his motorcycle throughout the United States and Canada with his wife, Agnes, and good friends. John had a great sense of humor and never missed an opportunity to share a good joke. His family was the most important thing to him, and he loved spending time with them whenever possible. He was a man of deep faith and had a steadfast love for his God and his country. He will be remembered by many as a man with a big heart, a big smile, and pink peppermints in his pockets.

Survivors include his wife of more than 68 years, Agnes, of Hull; four children, Glen Scholten, and his wife, Tami, of Hull; Faye, and her husband, Larry Kroese, of Doon; Marla, and her husband, Adrie Groeneweg; and Andrea Scholten, all of Orange City; ten grandchildren and their spouses, Jon and Bethany Scholten, Kait and Matt Schultze, Sam and Heather Scholten, Jared and Andrea Kroese, Luke and Breanna Kroese, Joe and Becca Kroese, Jesamine and Greg Helenburg, Spencer and Lauren Groeneweg, Ross and Kayla Groeneweg, and Trenton and Leah Groeneweg; twenty great-grandchildren, with one more on the way; two sisters, Jean De Jong, of Hull; and Eleanor, and her husband, John Ver Burg, of Cutlerville, Michigan; two brothers and their wives, Elmer and Evelyn Scholten, of Jenison, Michigan; and Gary and Charlene Scholten, of Junction City, Oregon; and Agnes’s siblings and their spouses, John and Norma Boogerd, of Hull; Harriet and Vernon Haagsma, of Sioux Center; and Wally and Bev Boogerd, of Orange City.

In addition to his parents and parent’s in-law, Walt and Christina Boogerd, he was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Fred De Jong; and two of Agnes’s brothers and their wives, Jim and Roberta Boogerd, and Harold and Jan Boogerd.

Memorials will be given to Hope Haven International in Rock Valley or a local Christian School of your choice.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.