Mrs. Pleunia Buntsma, age 90, of Orange City, passed away on Tuesday, December 1, 2009, at the Pioneer Memorial Home in Orange City.

There will be a memorial service on Friday, December 4, at 9:00am, at the Pioneer Memorial Home in Orange City. The Rev. Jonathan Opgenorth will officiate. Interment will follow at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. Arrangements are with the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Pleunia Pietertje was born on August 6, 1919, in Sassenheim, The Netherlands, the youngest of nine children of Karel and Mietje (Vis) Drost. She was raised in The Netherlands, where she attended secondary school.

In the 1940s, she married Willem Buntsma in Sassenheim. In 1954, they immigrated to Canada, settling in the Toronto, Ontario, area. They moved to Boone, Iowa, in 1961, and in 2006, she moved to Orange City. She became a resident of the Pioneer Home in 2007.

For about 25 years, Mrs. Buntsma was a nurse's aide at the Woodward, Iowa, State Hospital-School. She also did housekeeping in private homes in Boone and Ames, Iowa.

She was a member of the Assembly of God in Boone and was affiliated with the Trinity Reformed Church in Orange City.

Pleunia enjoyed reading, gardening, knitting, and other handwork.

Survivors include her three children, John Buntsma, and his wife, Cheryl, of Orange City; Charlie Buntsma, of Dixon, Missouri, and his wife, Millie, of Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Irene Koppang, and her husband, Jerry LaFlex, of Bloomington, Minnesota; four grandchildren, Katherine (Stephen) Ash, Katie Buntsma, Trina (David) Morrison, and Jonna (Adam) Keim; and two great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be directed to the Pioneer Memorial Home.