Robert Duane SCHREUR

SCHREUR, RIETEMA, DIRKSEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/15/2008 at 13:03:43

September 6, 2001
Kanawha Reporter, Kanawha, IA

Services for Robert Schreur, 58, at Kanawha Christian Reformed Church

Funeral services for Robert Schreur, 58, were scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 5, 2001 at Kanawha Christian Reformed Church. Officiating were Rev. Robert Brenton and Rev. Bert DenHerder. Special music was provided by Marilyn DeKruyff, organist. The Schreur Brothers Quartet sang Lead Me Gently Home and Children of the Heavenly Father. Congregational singing included There Is A Redeemer, Shine Jesus Shine, All Hail King Jesus and We Will Glorify the King of Kings. The ushers were Ken Muyskens, Al Eekhoff, John Eekhoff, Jr. and Don Eekhoff. The pall bearers were Tim and Diane, Dan and Crystal, Nate and Catherine and Aaron and Char. Interment was at Amsterdam Township Cemetery. Military services were conducted by the Kanawha American Legion.

Robert Duane Schreur was born on June 11, 1943 to George and Anna Schreur. He lived in the Kanawha area all his life and graduated from Kanawha High School in 1961. After graduation he worked for local farmers and at the Kanawha Elevator. He served in the Army from 1964 to 1966 and was stationed in Germany. In 1967 he started farming. He took great joy in caring for God's creation. He married Char Rietema on September 5, 1969. God richly blessed them with four sons - Timothy Robert, Nathan George, Daniel John and Aaron Joel. Going to his boys' activities was a priority and a privilege. He was a lifelong and active member of the Kanawha Christian Reformed Church and the Kanawha Christian School Society.

Bob noticed his first symptoms of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) in 1990. He went on a home ventilator in 1996. He was so thankful for the five extra years of life to enjoy his family, to celebrate two more son's marriages and the birth of two grandchildren. Bob died at home, with his family at his bedside, on September 1, 2001. He was preceded into glory by his Mom and Dad. Left to cherish his memory was his wife Char. He leaves four sons - Tim and his wife Diane and their children: Jonathan and Megan of Kanawha; Nate and his wife Catherine of Sanborn; Dan and his wife Crystal of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Aaron Schreur of Kanawha. He leaves his sister Ruth and her husband Larry Dirksen of Buffalo Center. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Ewing Dugger Funeral Home.