Henderena 'Rena' De Vries

DeVries, Rena Mrs. Dick W. 1918-2010

DEVRIES, VANDEBOSCH, GROENEWEG

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)

Date: 7/17/2010 at 04:46:24

Rena De Vries

February 2, 1918 - July 11, 2010

Mrs. Rena De Vries, age 92, of Orange City, passed away on Sunday, July 11, 2010, at the Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars.

There will be a funeral service on Thursday, July 15, at 10:30am, at the First Reformed Church Chapel in Orange City. The Rev. Stanley Vandersall will officiate. Interment will follow at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. Visitation with the family present will be the hour before the service on Thursday at the church. Arrangements are with the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Rena was born of February 2, 1918, in Rock Valley, the daughter of Bastian and Lydia (Vanden Bosch) Groeneweg.

On May 15, 1939, she married Dick W. De Vries in Orange City. For most of their married life, they made their home in Orange City, where she was a homemaker. Mr. DeVries passed away on November 25, 1978, in Orange City.

In 1983, Mrs. De Vries moved to Le Mars, where she first lived at Plymouth Life. About 1990, she transferred to The Abbey there.

She was a member of the First Reformed Church.

Survivors include a son and his wife, Ted and Jolene, of Dakota Dunes, South Dakota; a daughter and her husband, Gertrude "Trudy" and Dean Boeshart, of Norfolk, Nebraska; a son, Rick; three grandchildren, Nancy, and her husband, Craig Boche; John Boeshart; and Robin, and her husband, Brad Bollinger; five great-grandchildren, Shelby and Cody Boche, Emma Boeshart, and Khloe and Karsten Bollinger; four brothers and their wives, John and Marian Groeneweg, Simon and Judy Groeneweg, Walt and Alta Groeneweg, and Albert and Joanna Groeneweg; and a sister and her husband, Pat and John Bauman, all of Rock Valley.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Bernice Palmer; a son, Dickie; two infant daughters; two brothers, Paul and Leonard Groeneweg; and two sisters, Anna Van Ginkel and Lyda Terpstra.