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Harold Bonthuis | Visitation:
Friday, April 27, 2007
6:30 PM until 8:00 PM
Porter Funeral Home
1704 15th Street P.O. Box 39
Rock Valley, IA 51247
Service:
Saturday, April 28, 2007
11:00 AM
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Inwood, IA
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| | | Rock Valley, IA: Harold Bonthuis, 83, of Rock Valley, formerly of Inwood, died Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at Hegg Memorial Hospital. Funeral Service will be 11 am Saturday at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Inwood. Burial at Richland Cemetery, Inwood. Visitation will be Friday with the family present 6:30-8 pm Friday at Porter Funeral Home, Rock Valley.
Harold L. Bonthuis was born on September 6, 1923 in Rock Valley, Iowa.. He lived and grew up in Rock Valley and graduated from Rock Valley High School in 1941. During World War II he worked on the Alcan Highway in Alaska. He also worked in California and Chicago before returning home. He married Delores Holtz from Inwood, Iowa in 1949. Harold and Delores lived in Sioux Falls for a number of years where he worked for the Great Northern Railroad.
In early 1958 they moved to Scottsdale, Arizona and resided there for over 30 years. Harold worked for the Fruehauf Trailer Company for a number of years and then was an auditor for the State of Arizona working with companies and their workman’s compensation accounts. When Harold and Delores retired in the late 80’s, they decided to return to northwest Iowa where they both still had many family and friends and purchased a home in Inwood. In recent years, following Delores’ death in 1993, Harold resided in Rock Valley where he was active in the local Senior Center and Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Inwood. Harold was preceded in death by his parents, Asa and Marie Bonthuis, his brother Donald and his loving wife Delores, known to many as “DeeDee”.
In addition to DeeDee, the love of his life, his two other passions were golf and the San Francisco Giants. During his recent lengthy stay at Hegg Memorial and Sioux Valley Hospitals, the staff came to love him and nicknamed him the “Happy Grump”. Those folks who knew Harold will know exactly what that meant. Harold died in Rock Valley at Hegg Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at age 83
Harold is survived by sister, Esther Jerden (Kenneth) of Sioux Falls; brothers COL.(R) Robert (Donna) of Portland, Oregon and David (Borgie) of Anoka, Minnesota as well as a number of nieces and nephews. A visitation will be held at Porter Funeral Home in Rock Valley on Friday, April 27, 6:30 to 8:00 pm and services will be held at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Inwood on Saturday, April 28 at 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers, Harold asked that memorials be dedicated to Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Inwood for a planned sidewalk and paving project in which he was very interested.
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