OBITUARY: Catherine (Bottema) Joens, 1913-2005, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Based on obituary in the Mitchell County Press-News online, Jan. 1, 2005]




                              Catherine Joens

Funeral mass for Catherine Joens, age 91, of Riceville, Iowa, will be held
on Friday, January 7, 2005, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in
Riceville with Father Ray E. Atwood officiating. Burial will be in
Westview Cemetery in La Porte City, Iowa.

Catherine passed away Monday, January 3, 2005 at Mitchell County Regional
Health Center-Hospital in Osage, Iowa.

Catherine Joens was born May 6, 1913 near Holland, Iowa, the first daughter
of Theodore and Wilhelmina (Klein) Bottema. She graduated from 8th grade
in country school, then helped her parents around the home and farm. She
"mothered" her younger siblings after their parents died in 1932 and 1933.

She married Walter Joens in La Porte City in 1939. They farmed near La Porte
City for 20 years, then near Chester for 36 years. Catherine was active in
St. Stephans's Church, Kitchen Kut-Ups Band and T.O.P.S., in Chester. Since
1995, she has resided in Riceville.

Catherine was preceded in death by her husband Walter, in 1979; brothers,
Rinard Bottema (infant), John and wife Dorothy Bottema of Waterloo, Henry
Bottema of Dysart, Bill Bottema and Rinard Bottema (adult) of La Porte City
and sister Angelina Stoner of California.

She is survived by three sons and their wives David (Nancy) of Minnetonka,
Minnesota, Bill (Jeannette) of Colorado, and Bob (Dianne) of Riceville,
nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; three sisters Johanna
Leaman of Waterloo, Elizabeth Raymond and Mary Kruckenberg of La Porte
City, and also sisters-in-law Leona (Bill) Bottema, Agenes (Rinard)
Bottema both of La Porte City and Sophia (Henry) Bottema of Dysart.

The Lindstrom Funeral Home, Riceville, is in charge of arrangements.




     Copyright 2005, K.L. Kittleson