Hilda Addink

Hilda Addink, 92, of Sioux Center, IA, died peacefully at her home, Friday, May 6, 2011. Visitation will be held Monday at Bethel Christian Reformed Church of Sioux Center from 4-8PM, with the family present from 5-7PM. A funeral service will be held Tuesday at 10:30AM at Bethel Christian Reformed Church with Rev. John Lee and Rev. Duane Tinklenberg officiating. Interment will follow the funeral service in Memory Gardens Cemetery of Sioux Center. The Addink family prefers memorial donations be made to the Sioux Center Christian School. Hilda Addink, daughter of John and Marie (Huisman) Kiel, was born August 31, 1918. She was raised on a farm west of Orange City. She attended a country school through the eighth grade. As the oldest daughter of a family with eleven children, she kept very busy at home and at the age of seventeen she worked as a domestic helper for families in the area. She married Dick Addink on September 12, 1940. They lived in or near Sioux Center their entire married life. She supported Dick in his corn shelling business and raised a family of nine children. After her children were grown, she worked in the Dordt College cafeteria for eight years. They loved to visit their children who lived throughout the United States. Hilda was an active member of Bethel Christian Reformed Church. She loved to cook and read and her quiet time with her Lord was a priority each morning. She was a faithful servant of Christ and displayed His love to many. Survivors include her husband of 70 years, Dick of Sioux Center; nine children and their spouses: John and Mary of Hutchinson, KS, Marilyn and Billy Moore of Bradenton, FL, Harriet and Jim Martinus of Jenison, MI, Duane and Kathy of Hudsonville, MI, Larry and Sharidee of Manhattan, MT, Ken and Barbara of Sioux Center, Gene and Betty of Rapid City, SD, Alma and Jim De Vries of Grand Rapids, MI, and Betty and Kevin Moss of Boyden; 44 grandchildren and over 50 great grandchildren; her brothers: Bill Kiel and wife, Joan of Hartley, Clarence Kiel and wife, Myrtle Orange City, Vern Kiel and wife, Geri of Orange City, her sisters: Hermina Hulstein of Hull, Mary Addink and husband, Henry of Orange City and Evelyn Kroeze of Orange City; sisters-in-law: Edna Kiel of Orange City and Grada Kiel of Sioux Center. She was preceded in death by her infant son, Calvin; an great granddaughter; her brothers: Steven Kiel and wife, Henrietta, Howard Kiel and first wife, Marie and Ray Kiel; her sister, Kathryn Wassink and husband, Arend.