He is married to Harmina Catherina (Catherine) Gelder.
They got married on December 18, 1945 at Dirk Gelder home, in proximo, Titonka, Kossuth Co., IA, he was 18 years old.
Elton William Huisman oo Harmina Catherine Gelder
Marriage source: Author: Welsh, Patrick, Title: Naber_Troff.ged, (Publication location unknown, Publisher: PW, Pubication date: xii Mar MMV) for fact of marriage.
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Child(ren):
Elton William Huisman
Source: Author: Welsh, Patrick, Title: Naber_Troff.ged, (Publication location unknown, Publisher: PW, Publication date: xii Mar MMV) for name = Elton William Huisman, date of birth, town of birth, date of death, town of death.
SS # issued in Iowa.
Auythor: Boyken, Ruth & Hans-Georg, Title: «u»Obituaries from the area around Titonka ... Kossuth County, Iowa Teil I«/u», (Publication location: Titonka IA, Publisher: Boyken & Boyken, Publication date: MMVII) no pagination, ISBN 0-9670802-8-2, Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib.
"William HUISMAN * 1899 + 29 June 1969 Titonka, IA ... oo 18 December 1918 Kamrar, IA Lena GREENFIELD * 19 April 1899 Kamrar, IA as daughter of Simon GREENFIELD and his wife Jana * KOOP + 14 October 1986 Webster City, IA # 17 October 1986 Ramsey Reformed Church cem. north of German Valley, IA
Lena Huisman, 87
Mrs. Lena Huisman, 87, passed way at Crestview Manor Nursing Home in Webster City on Tuesday, October 14. ... She is survived by four sons, ... Elton of Jewell, ..."
Author: Albrecht, Kimberly (Nims), Title: "Elton William Huisman," (Publication location: Kamrar, IA, Publisher: Find-a-Grave, Publication date: xxii July MMVIII), Repository: The Cloud
Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28465672/elton-william-huisman
"Photo[graph of stone shared with Harmina C. Huisman [hers is pre-need]] added by Kathy Gerkins
Added [photograph of his obituary, Ft. Dodge [IA] Messenger, added 27 Oct 2008] by Kimberly (Nims) Albrecht
Elton William Huisman Birth 21 Jan 1927 Kamrar, Hamilton County, Iowa, USA Death 7 Aug 1992 (aged 65) Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa, USA Burial First Presbyterian Cemetery Kamrar, Hamilton County, Iowa, USA Memorial ID 28465672
Obituary obtained from Sunday August 9, 1992 Fort Dodge Messenger (Fort Dodge, Iowa)
Family Members
Parents
William Huisman 1899-1969
Lena Greenfield Huisman 1899-1986
Siblings
Floyd Vernon Huisman 1919-2011
DeLoris Jane Huisman Schaa 1922-2010
Marjorie Fern Huisman Pannkuk 1924-2019
Sterling Lee Huisman 1935-1997
Created by: Kimberly (Nims) Albrecht Added: 22 Jul 2008 Find A Grave Memorial 28465672"
The text of his obituary:
Ft. Dodge [IA] Messanger
"ELTON W HUISMAN
WEBSTER CITY - Elton W. Huisman, 65, Webster City, died Friday at the Hamilton County Hospital at Webster City.
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Missionary Alliance Church in Blairsburg, with the Rev. Ian Hoover officiating. Burial will be in the Presbyterian Church Cemetery east of Kamrar, with a graveside flag-folding service conducted by American Lergion Post No. 550 of Jewell. Visitation is until 9 p.m. today at Foster Funeral Home.
Survivors include his wife, Harmina, Jewell; sons, Arvid, Creston, Gerald, Webster City, and David and Paul, both of Jewell; daughters Shirley Nelson, Blairsburg, and Trudy Huisman, Omaha, Neb.; 11 grandchildren; sisters, Deloris Schaa and Marjorie Pannkuk, both of Webster City; and brothers, Floud, Viola, Wis., Sterling, of Albert Lea, Minn., and Ronald, Hot Springs, Ark.
Elton William Huisman was born Jan. 21, 1927, on a farm southeast of Kamrar. He attended rural schools in Lyon Township. In 1940, he moved with his parents to a farm near Titonka. He married Harmina Gelder in 1945 at Titonka. He served with the U.S. Army in 1945 to 1946 during World War II. After the war, he returned to Titonka, where the couple farmed until 1952. They then moved back to Hamilton County, and he was employed as a feed mill operator at Co-op elevators at Ellsworth, Jewell, Randall and Kamrar, retiring in 1969 because of failing health. He had been a resident of Southfdield [sic] Care Center in Webster City since January 1990.
Added by: Kimberly (Nims) Albrecht on 27 Oct 2008"
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