Marie D. (Pals) BARKEMA

BARKEMA, BORCHERS, PALS, KELLING, ARENS, DIRKSON, EDEN, BOELMAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/1/2007 at 19:40:35

Marie D. Barkema, 95, died Friday (Dec. 24, 1999) at the Belmond Health Care Center. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 Tuesday at First Reformed Church, Alexander, with the Rev. Robert Ford officiating. Interment will be in the Alexander Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Tenold Funeral Home in Belmond and will resume one hour prior to service time at the church Tuesday.

Marie D. (Pals) Barkema, the daughter of Jelto and Jennie (Borchers) Pals, was born on April 27, 1904, in Alexander. She attended Alexander High School. After school she began working as a sales clerk at Aldinger's Store in Alexander. On July 4, 1937, Marie was united in marriage to George Barkema at the First Reformed Church parsonage in Alexander. Marie and George farmed north of Alexander until 1983 when the couple retired and moved to Belmond. Marie was a member of the First Reformed Church in Alexander and was a member of the Reformed Church Women (RCW), which she served as president for eight years. She had been a member of the Alexander Cemetery Society since 1938, and she was a charter member of Alexander's Kitchen Klatter Band. Marie truly loved spending time with her family and friends, and she thoroughly enjoyed reading.

Those left to cherish her memory are her daughter, Janean Kelling, and her husband, Ron, of Roseville, Calif.; two granddaughters, Kim Arens and her husband, Doug, of Roseville, Calif, and Jill Kelling of Wilmette, Ill.; and two great-grandchildren, Kaitlin and Logan Arens. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, George, in 1988; a son, James, in 1987; four sisters, Yettie Dirkson, Minnie Eden, Fannie Boelman and Eva Pals; and an infant brother, Jelto Pals. Tenold Funeral Home.

December 27, 1999
Mason City Globe-Gazette