Pearl Ruth (De Boer) ROSKAMP VANDER PLOEG KLAY

KLAY, DE BOER, HOLLEMAN, ROSKAMP, VANDER PLOEG, MOSS, HUSTON, SCHAAF, VAN ZEE, VAN HOLLAND, TILLEMA, BOVERHUIS, WORKMAN, LOVERINK, CHRISTIANS, EEKHOFF, BOS, COELING

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/29/2007 at 23:49:09

February 11, 2005
Sioux City Journal, Iowa

HULL, Iowa - Pearl Klay, 78, of Hull passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005, at the Sioux Center Community Hospital Nursing Facility. Services will be 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Christian Reformed Church in Hull with the Rev. Carl Klompien officiating. Interment will follow at the Hope Cemetery in Hull. Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. today with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Oolman Funeral Home in Hull.

Pearl Ruth was born Feb. 4, 1927, near Platte, S.D., the daughter of Harko and Jennie (Holleman) De Boer. She was raised at Platte, until the age of 11, when she moved to Hollandale, Minn., where she graduated from the eighth grade. On Jan. 12, 1950, she married Percy G. Roskamp in Titonka, Iowa. They resided near Belmond, Iowa and later moved to Clarion, Iowa. Percy passed away on Sept. 2, 1964, in Belmond. She then moved to Kanawha, Iowa with her five children. On July 25, 1966, she married Herman Vander Ploeg in Kanawha. They made their home in Hull. Herman passed away on Dec. 17, 1976, in Hull. On May 16, 1987, she married Roger E. Klay in Hull. They continued to live in Hull. Roger passed away on Jan. 1, 2003, in Hull.

Mrs. Klay was a member of the First Christian Reformed Church and attended the Coffee Break Bible Study. She enjoyed reading, gardening and being with her families, spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a homemaker and also a certified nurses' aide at the Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull for 15 years.

Survivors include her two daughters, Patricia and her husband, Harlan Moss, of New Bern, N.C.; and Paula Huston of Des Moines, Iowa; three sons, Philip Roskamp and his wife, Dawn, of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Palmer Roskamp of Alton, Iowa; and Preston Roskamp of New Braunfels, Texas; six stepchildren, Cathryn and her husband, Corwin Schaaf, of Spring Lake, Mich., Bruce Vander Ploeg and his wife, Karen, of Sioux Center, Iowa, Arlen Vander Ploeg and his wife, Sally, of Prescott Valley, Ariz., T. J. Klay and his wife, Eloise, of Nashville, Tenn., Mary and her husband, Roland Van Zee, of Monroe, Iowa; and Nancy and her husband, David Van Holland, of Sioux Center; 12 grandchildren; 17 stepgrandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; nine stepgreat-grandchildren; six sisters, Marie Tillema of De Motte, Ind., Louise Boverhuis of Albert Lea, Minn., Esther Workman of Falmouth, Mich., Jennie Loverink of Hollandale; and Evelyn Christians and Viola Eekhoff, both of Kanawha; two brothers and their wives, Wendell and Tena De Boer of Hollandale and Paul and Kathleen De Boer of Albert Lea; two sisters-in-law, Alice and Lena De Boer, both of Hollandale; two brothers-in-law, William Bos of Albert Lea and Bert Coeling of Kanawha; and many nephews and nieces. In addition to her parents and husbands, she was preceded in death by an infant grandson, three sisters, and three brothers. Memorials will be directed to the Gideons and to Hospice.