In Loving Memory Duane Boersma
1939 - 2004
Service
Monday, September 20, 2004, 10:30 AMHonorary Casketbearers: Warren Puck, Ken Puck, Ronald Hodne, & all former students of Manning Community School
Interment Following Cremation
Manning Cemetery, Manning, Iowa
THE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE FOR YOUR KINDNESS EVIDENCED IN THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED, AND INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR LUNCH AND FELLOWSHIP AT THE HAUSBARN RESTAURANT AND CONFERENCE CENTER IN MANNING FOLLOWING THE FUNERAL SERVICE.
Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God; believe also in me.
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself that where I am, there ye may be also.
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Thomas saith unto him, Lord; we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the lift: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
— Gospel of John 14: 1-6
Duane Boersma
Douglas Duane, son of Lubert Garrett and Violet (Thoelke) Boersma, was born February 7, 1939, at Clear Lake, South Dakota. He attended school in Clear Lake and graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1957. Duane then attended Westmar College in LeMars, Iowa, graduating with a degree in education.
On November 25, 1961, Duane was united in marriage with Judy Peck in Russell, Kansas. Duane and Judy were teachers at Greenville-Rossie schools for two years before moving to Manning. Duane taught junior high science and drivers education and coached junior high football, basketball and track over a period of 13 years in the Manning school system. In 1977, he began serving as an agent/representative for the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network and continued until his retirement in February of 2004.
Duane was a member of the Faith Evangelical Free Church in Audubon and served there as an elder. Throughout the years he served on various committees and boards in the Manning Community. Duane loved to fish, golf, visit with friends and spend time with his family.
On Thursday, September 16, 2004, Duane died suddenly and unexpectedly at Manning Regional Healthcare Center in Manning, Iowa. He was 65 years, 7 months and 9 days of age.
Besides his parents, Duane was preceded in death by a sister Bonnie and husband Ronald Ewoldt and a brother Gary Boersma.
He is survived by his wife Judy Boersma of Manning; three children: Kevin Boersma of Manning; Molly and husband Duane Wilson of Eagle Grove; Nathan Boersma and fiancee Lee Ann Scheboth of Pittsburgh, PA; granddaughters: Heather, Amy and Sarah Wilson of Eagle Grove; a sister Marlys and husband Edward Ross of Seattle, WA; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.