Pearl (Rozeboom) TIMMER

TIMMER, ROZEBOOM, ROSKAMP, LEENDERTS, HEDGES, STEFFENS, CLOUSING, MOUW, WIELENGA, TIEMYER, BROCK, BIDWELL, VANDER ESCH, VANDE KAMP, PUNT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/9/2011 at 11:22:21

June 18, 1917 -- May 7, 2011

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa -- Pearl Timmer, 93, of Sioux Center died Saturday, May 7, 2011, at Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center. Memorial services will be 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at First Reformed Church in Sioux Center, with the Rev. Bob Holtrop officiating. A prayer service for family and friends will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the church. Interment will follow the prayer service in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Sioux Center. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., at Memorial Funeral Home of Sioux Center.

Pearl (Rozeboom) Timmer was born to Tunis and Jennie (Roskamp) Rozeboom on June 18, 1917, in Kanawha, Iowa. The family moved to Sioux County, Iowa, in 1920, where Pearl lived the remainder of her life. On Jan. 3, 1935, she married her first and only love, Albert Timmer. She and Al were blessed with five children and farmed northwest of Sioux Center until 1962. Pearl worked as a nurses aide at Sioux Center Community Hospital. Later, she and Al purchased the House of Fashion, a woman's clothing store in downtown Sioux Center, which they operated for several years. Pearl lost her beloved Al to cancer in 1983. Her later years were devoted to her family, First Reformed Church Library, the Foster Grandparent Program and Hospice program. Pearl was a resident of Royale Meadows Care Center for the past 10 years.

Pearl is survived by her five children and their spouses, Jack and Marlene Timmer of Sioux Center, Delores and Leonard Leenderts of Hills, Minn., Thelma and George Hedges of Scranton, Iowa, Marj and Dave Steffens of Primghar, Iowa, and Lin Clousing of Thiensville, Wis.; 16 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Pearl is also survived by six sisters, Marie Mouw of Sioux Center, Kathryn Wielenga of Ontario, Canada, Wilma Tiemyer and husband, Al of Caledonia, Mich., Margaret Brock of Grand Rapids, Mich., Arlene Bidwell of Sioux Center, and Marilyn Vander Esch and husband, Lee of Port Heron, Mich.; and two sisters-in-law, Mary Jane Rozeboom of Hull, Iowa, and Donna Rozeboom of Zeeland, Mich. She will be joined in her heavenly home by her husband, Al; son-in-law, Gerald Vande Kamp; her parents; brothers, Tunis and Roy Rozeboom; two infant sisters; and brothers-in-law, Bernard Mouw, Jake Wielenga, Sid Brock, Ralph Punt and Forrest Bidwell.

Pearl will be remembered for her love for God, her family and everyone who needed a special touch. We praise God for her life. The Timmer family prefers memorials to the Foster Grandparent Program of Rock Valley, Iowa.

Sioux City Journal -- Sioux City, Iowa
May 9, 2011