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Persoonlijke gegevens Donald Lemuel Bonnema 

• Hij is geboren op 1 mei 1929 in Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa.
• Hij is overleden op 9 augustus 2010 in Pella, Marion County, Iowa, hij was toen 81 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Ben Bonnema en Henrietta Muilenburg

Gezin van Donald Lemuel Bonnema

Hij is getrouwd met Harriet Joyce Rensink.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 22 maart 1951 te Newkirk Reformed Church, Newkirk, Iowa, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Sharise Leigh Bonnema  1952-1955
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Notities over Donald Lemuel Bonnema

Donald Lemuel Bonnema was born on May 1, 1929, at Orange City, Iowa. He was one of two sons that were born to Ben and Henrietta Muilenberg Bonnema. Don attended school in Orange City where he graduated from high school.
While at a church social he met a young lady, Harriet Joyce Rensink. This led to a courtship, and on March 22, 1951, they were united in marriage at the Newkirk Reformed Church in Newkirk, Iowa.
Don was drafted into the United States Marine Corps in January of 1952, and Joyce accompanied him to Camp Pendleton in California. In 1953, she moved back to Newkirk when Don was ordered to serve overseas during the Korean War. In 1954, he was honorably discharged, and they resumed their lives together in northwest Iowa where Don began working in a paint store in Primgar, Iowa.
To this union four children were born: Sharise Leigh, Loren Keith, Cheryl Beth and Charma Joy. Their first three children were born in northwest Iowa. Then on January 8, 1955, Sharise died at the age of two years following a brief illness. This loss changed life for Don and Joyce.
They lived in Altoona, Iowa while Don attended the American Institute of Business in Des Moines, Iowa for one year. In 1959, the family moved to Pella, Iowa. Don commuted back and forth as a grain specialist for the Farmers Grain Elevator at Avon Lake, Iowa until assuming the same position for the Farmers Cooperative Exchange in Pella where he was employed for over 20 years.
Joyce was employed in the dietary department at the Pella Community Hospital for 24 years. They remained very devoted to each other. During the last 8 years of Joyce's life, he faithfully and compassionately attended to her needs until she passed away on April 1, 2004, at the age of 74 years.
They enjoyed traveling together as a family, and Don continued to live in their residence at 616 Spruce Drive where he enjoyed listening to classical and southern gospel music and watching western movies.
On Monday morning, August 9, 2010, he passed away at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House in Pella at the age of 81 years.
Those who will remember his faithful spirit are three children and their spouses, seven grandchildren, who will always remember his good-byes with, "Don't take any wooden nickels," and one great-granddaughter. They are Loren and Tammy Bonnema of Pella, Iowa, Cheryl and Jay Schaap of St.John, Indiana,and Charma and Mike Vander Wert of Pella, Iowa. Don leaves his sister-in-law, Ruth (Earl) Bonnema of Orange City, Iowa and a sister-in-law, Lois (Glenn) Rensink of Hospers, Iowa.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Joyce; his infant daughter, Sharise; his parents, Ben and Henrietta Bonnema; his parents-in-law, Arthur and Nina Peters Rensink; his brother, Earl P. Bonnema; and a brother-in-law, Glenn Rensink.

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