Bena Huisman, 99, Rock Rapids, Iowa, died Monday, Aug. 19, 2002, at Rock Rapids Health Centre, Rock Rapids.
Services were Thursday, Aug. 22, at First Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, Iowa. The Rev. Scott Prouty officiated. Burial was in Pleasant View Cemetery, Little Rock.
Bena Buss was born to John and Bena (Schultz) Buss on Aug. 31, 1902, in rural Lyon County, Iowa. She attended country school in Lyon County up to the eighth grade.
She married Claus Huisman on Feb. 15 1928, at Zion Presbyterian Church in rural George, Iowa. After their marriage the couple farmed in the Rock Rapids and Little Rock area until retiring and moving to Little Rock in 1965. In 1979 they moved to Rock Rapids. Mr. Huisman died in1980, and in 1982, she moved to an apartment in Ellsworth. She moved to Rock Rapids Health Centre on Nov. 11, 1997.
Mrs. Huisman was an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Little Rock.
Survivors include one son, John (Ruth Ann) Huisman, Ellsworth; one daughter, Audrey DeBeer, Rock Rapids; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and four sisters, Vera Markus, Adrian, Emma Kruse, Rock Rapids, Lydia Tjepkes, Little Rock, and Gertrude Kannengieter, Sibley, Iowa.
Mrs. Huisman was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one son-in-law, Lawrence DeBeer, three brothers, Fred, Herman and Henry, three sisters, Anna Hassebroek, Jennie Heronimus and Ruth Henrichs.
Roste Funeral Home, Rock Rapids, was in charge of arrangements.