Baulah Harms

HAWARDEN, IOWA- Baulah B. Harms, 85, of Hawarden, died Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at the Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City
Funeral Service will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the American Lutheran Church in Hawarden with Rev. Erma Wolf officiating. Burial will follow in the Grace Hill Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be one hour prior to the service at the church. The Porter Funeral Home in Hawarden is assisting the family.
Baulah Beth Harms was born December 12, 1927 in Orange City, Iowa, the daughter of Gerrit and Henrietta (Van Marel) Riphagen. She attended school in Orange City.
She married Clarence Harms December 27, 1951 in Sioux Center, Iowa. Together they moved from Le Mars to Hawarden in 1952. Baulah worked as the bookkeeper/receptionist at their business the Hawarden Hatchery, which became Harms Feed and Supply in 1963. They sold the business in 1974.
Clarence died on October 3, 2008.
Baulah was a longtime member of the American Lutheran Church in Hawarden.
She is survived by her daughter, Cheryl (Craig) Colton of Stillwater, Minnesota; daughter-in-law, Valerie Harms of Clinton Township, Michigan; 2 grandsons, John Colton and Jason Harms; and 2 sisters, Sharla (Paul) De Jager of Maurice, Iowa and Fay Masters of Black Diamond, Washington.
Baulah was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Clarence; son, Stanley L. Harms; brothers, Vernon Riphagen, Merlin Riphagen, and Kenneth Riphagen; and sister, Arloa VandeBrake.
The family prefers memorials be directed to the charity of the donor's choice or Cure Alzheimer's Fund 34 Washington, St. Suit 200 Wellesley Hills, MA 02481.