Category Archives: Obituaries

Cornelia Vos, 87, of Sully, passed away at Pella on Sept. 2, 2018. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at Sully Christian Reformed Church. Memorials have been designated for Sully Christian School and Hospice of Pella. Cornelia (Rolffs) Vos was born May 10, 1931, south of Sully to Dick and Minnie...

Sandy Willemsen, 77, of Grinnell died Aug. 20, 2018, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral ser-vices were held Thursday, Aug. 23, at Grinnell First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dondrea Walker officiating. Honorary bearers were Jeremy and Kaleb Juull, Laura and Maeve McCalester, and Carver Terpstra. A private family burial was held Saturday,...

Funeral services for Anna Mae Nikkel, 93, of Sully were held Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018, at Sully Christian Re-formed Church. Memorials may be designated to the Back To God Hour or Pavlos and Meggan Vasileiadis Commission to Every Nation and may be left at the church or at Pence ~ Reese Funeral Home. Anna Mae Nikkel,...

Beulah “Boots” Bouma, 94, of Montezuma and formerly of Lynnville, died Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018, at Montezuma Specialty Care. A graveside service and burial was at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, at Woodland Cemetery in Lynnville with Pastor Doug Tiffany, Care Initiatives Hospice Chaplain, West Des Moines, officiating. Pallbearers were Chris and Reese Bouma, James, Curt,...

Robert “Bob” E. Baarda, 85, of Newton died Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, at Newton Health Care Center. A funeral service was held Wednesday, Aug. 29, at Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory in Newton.  Memorials to the Great Commission Fund at the Community Heights Alliance Church in Newton may be left at the funeral home. Bob,...

Giles Jay, 83, of Grinnell, died in the arms of his loving wife and surrounded by family on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, at St. Francis Manor in Grinnell. Mass of the Resurrection will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 31, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Grinnell with Fr. Ron Hodges presiding. Interment...

Gerrit Van Hal, 86, died Aug. 17, 2018. Funeral service was held Aug. 21 at Second Christian Reformed Church, Pella. Memorials have been designated for Pella Christian Schools and Lake View Camp. Gerrit was born Apr. 16, 1932, to Jacob and Dena (Spoelstra) Van Hal on the family farm near Sully where he grew up. He...