Idaho County ID Archives Obituaries.....Gortsema, Jake B. August 1, 2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: K T bluewolf@onemain.com August 3, 2005, 11:05 pm Idaho County Free Press Jake B. Gortsema, 86 Jake B. Gortsema, 86, a longtime Sunnyside, Wash., resident, died July 27, 2005. He was born June 4, 1919, in Grangeville to Kryn and Sadie Gortsema. There he grew up on the family farm and attended school. On Sept. 14, 1941, he married his sweetheart, Grace Kingma. He worked as a wheat farmer and later a machinist and operated a machine shop on a farm near Grangeville. In 1956 the family moved to Sunnyside. He owned and operated Gortsema Service and Supply. He repaired farm equipment, but also designed and manufactured farm implements. Additional Comments: Grangeville, Idaho County, Idaho http://www.idahocountyfreepress.com/IFPMilestones3.html Volunteer submission - No relation to the deceased. 03 August 2005 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/idaho/obits/g/gortsema120gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/idfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb