John Jellema
BIRTH 24 Aug 1926 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
DEATH 27 May 2001 Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA
BURIAL West Lawn Cemetery Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, USA
MEMORIAL ID 111998878
John woonde in Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57106, USA.
John Jellema, 74, of Sioux Falls, S.D. died May 28, 2001, at Royal C. Johnson Veterans Hospital in Sioux Falls.
A memorial service wiill be held on Friday, June 1 at 10:00 a.m. at the George Boom Funeral Home in Sioux Falls. Burial will be held at West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City at 1:30 p.m.
John was born Aug. 24, 1926, at Chicago, Ill. As a child he moved with his family to Orange City where he grew up and attended Christian school.
He entered the U.S. Army and served in Japan during WWII and in Korea during the Korean War.
He was honorably discharged in 1956, and John then moved to Chicago where he worked as a roofer until retiring in Sioux Falls in 1990.
Survivors include three sisters, Etta De Haan, Marie Kaschmitter and Agnes "Tokey" Becker, all of Sioux Falls; and four brothers, Onno Jellema of Alton, Tom Jellema of Sioux Falls, Orion Jellema of Jackson, Miss. and Donald Jellema of Brandon, S.D.
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