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May 10, 2008
Services
A memorial service will be held at the Preakness Valley United Reformed Church,480 Valley Road, Wayne on Thursday, May 15 at 7:00 P.M.
Interment will be at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her late husband, Frank Postma.
Jacoba Postma died on May 10, 2008 in the home of her daughter in Towaco, N.J.
Jacoba Postma was born in Sulley, Iowa on My 29, 1916 to John and Cornelia Haveman. Jacoba, or Cobie as she is known, was one of six children, three girls and two boys. Cobie’s father was a minister in the Christian Reformed Church and while Cobie was young, the family moved to New Holland, South Dakota where her father served as a pastor of a large church. Cobie attended the Christian school there in a two-room building housing 35 students in grades 1to 8. Cobie loved the “big sky” country and had many fond memories of the people, the farms, the Mission Day gatherings and the generosity of the farmers.
Her father took a call to Inwood, Iowa in 1927 when Cobie was 11. She attended a public school there where she enjoyed a home economics class and remembered well her fudge making success. She recalled the days of spring cleaning when there were no vacuum cleaners, rugs were draped over the clothes line and beaten with a rug beater. Mattresses were treated the same way. She claimed that “women today have it a lot easier but are busier than ever.”
It was in Inwood that Cobie’s father died of an illness which left her mother widowed with six children in the time of the Depression. The family moved to Grand Rapids to live with Cobie’s Grandpa Lemson. It was here that Cobie graduated from Grand Rapids Christian High School. After high school, work was difficult to find. She heard of an opportunity to work at the Christian Health Care Center in Wyckoff, New Jersey. It was there that she met Frank Postma. After returning to New Holland, SD to work as a teacher’s aide for one year, she came back to NJ and married Frank in 1939. She and Frank were happily married for 49 years. They were involved in teaching and serving in the Preakness Christian Reformed Church while residing in Wayne, New Jersey. Cobie is fondly remembered by former neighbors and friends of her sons as always having the coffee pot ready and the baked goods on the table for the young men who came to visit often in the evenings. Cobie was also an avid reader and student of the Bible.
Upon retirement Frank and Cobie moved to Grand Rapids until Frank’s death in 1988. Cobie returned to N.J. and in her last years resided with her daughter in Towaco, New Jersey and attended Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church.
Surviving Cobie are her four children, Fred Postma and his wife Barbara of Wanaque, David Postma and his wife Margie of Ringwood, Madelyn Higby and her husband Phil of Towaco, Paul Postma and his wife Bonnie of Lincoln Park as well as 18 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren. “Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him.” Psalm 127:3
Looking back over the years, Cobie would say, “All the way my Savior leads me, what have I to ask besides?”
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A memorial service will be held at the Preakness Valley United Reformed Church,480 Valley Road, Wayne on Thursday, May 15 at 7:00 P.M.
Interment will be at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her late husband, Frank Postma.
May 10, 2008
Services
A memorial service will be held at the Preakness Valley United Reformed Church,480 Valley Road, Wayne on Thursday, May 15 at 7:00 P.M.
Interment will be at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her late husband, Frank Postma.
Jacoba Postma died on May 10, 2008 in the home of her daughter in Towaco, N.J.
Jacoba Postma was born in Sulley, Iowa on My 29, 1916 to John and Cornelia Haveman. Jacoba, or Cobie as she is known, was one of six children, three girls and two boys. Cobie’s father was a minister in the Christian Reformed Church and while Cobie was young, the family moved to New Holland, South Dakota where her father served as a pastor of a large church. Cobie attended the Christian school there in a two-room building housing 35 students in grades 1to 8. Cobie loved the “big sky” country and had many fond memories of the people, the farms, the Mission Day gatherings and the generosity of the farmers.
Her father took a call to Inwood, Iowa in 1927 when Cobie was 11. She attended a public school there where she enjoyed a home economics class and remembered well her fudge making success. She recalled the days of spring cleaning when there were no vacuum cleaners, rugs were draped over the clothes line and beaten with a rug beater. Mattresses were treated the same way. She claimed that “women today have it a lot easier but are busier than ever.”
It was in Inwood that Cobie’s father died of an illness which left her mother widowed with six children in the time of the Depression. The family moved to Grand Rapids to live with Cobie’s Grandpa Lemson. It was here that Cobie graduated from Grand Rapids Christian High School. After high school, work was difficult to find. She heard of an opportunity to work at the Christian Health Care Center in Wyckoff, New Jersey. It was there that she met Frank Postma. After returning to New Holland, SD to work as a teacher’s aide for one year, she came back to NJ and married Frank in 1939. She and Frank were happily married for 49 years. They were involved in teaching and serving in the Preakness Christian Reformed Church while residing in Wayne, New Jersey. Cobie is fondly remembered by former neighbors and friends of her sons as always having the coffee pot ready and the baked goods on the table for the young men who came to visit often in the evenings. Cobie was also an avid reader and student of the Bible.
Upon retirement Frank and Cobie moved to Grand Rapids until Frank’s death in 1988. Cobie returned to N.J. and in her last years resided with her daughter in Towaco, New Jersey and attended Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church.
Surviving Cobie are her four children, Fred Postma and his wife Barbara of Wanaque, David Postma and his wife Margie of Ringwood, Madelyn Higby and her husband Phil of Towaco, Paul Postma and his wife Bonnie of Lincoln Park as well as 18 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren. “Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him.” Psalm 127:3
Looking back over the years, Cobie would say, “All the way my Savior leads me, what have I to ask besides?”
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