November 16, 1946 – March 11, 2021

A memorial service for Shirley Vanden Bosch, 74, of Edgerton were held Monday, March 15, 2021; 10:30 a.m. at Bethel Christian Reformed Church in Edgerton with Pastor Brian Kornelis officiating. Interment was in the Hillside Cemetery in Edgerton.

Music was provided by organists Brenda Hamm and Leona Hoek, special music Because He Lives by Marlin Van Schepen and the congregational singing What A Friend We Have In Jesus and How Great Thou Art.

Pallbearers were Dar Sietsema, Craig Vanden Bosch, Jack Tinklenberg, Terry Tinklenberg, Barry Rieck, and Jim Van Nieuwenhuyzen.

Shirley Vanden Bosch was born November 16, 1946, to Marinus and Janette (Scholten) Starkenburg in Bellingham, Washington. She grew up on a dairy farm near Everson, Washingon, and went to Lynden Christian Grade School and Nooksack Valley High School.

After graduation in 1964 she went to visit relatives in Minnesota and met Rob Vanden Bosch and stayed. They were married April 15, 1965, and were blessed with three children, Corey, Jeff, and Marcy. The couple farmed and lived near Edgerton, Minnesota, and were blessed with 54 years of marriage.

Shirley was a member of Bethel Christian Reformed Church in Edgerton and the Edgebrook Auxiliary. She enjoyed gardening “playing in the dirt,” woodworking, coffee time with friends, bowling with the gals, cross stitching, and especially time spent with family.

In 2010 her back fell apart and they thought it was osteoporosis – not until March 2014 she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, cancer of the plasma cells, which was destroying the bones. She started chemo treatments and had a stem cell transplant in Rochester in August of 2014. In February of 2017 it came back and she started a new chemo treatment. She died March 11, 2021, at the age of 74.

Shirley is lovingly remembered by her husband, Rob Vanden Bosch, two sons, Corey and Judy Vanden Bosch of Pipestone, Minnesota, and Jeff and Gaelynne Vanden Bosch of Lake Wilson, Minnesota, and a daughter, Marcy and Darin Pals of Jasper, Minnesota, seven grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren; a sister, Carolyn Silves of Ferndale, Washington, two brothers, Everett Starkenburg of Woodenville, Washington, and Scott and Kathie Starkenburg of 150 Mile House, British Columbia, mother-in-law Florence Vanden Bosch, brother-in-law Roy; three sisters-in-law, Max, Iva and Ken, and Mari and Wayne, and nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Marinus and Janette, a nephew, Michael Starkenburg, three sisters-in-law, Jan, Lou, and Helen, a brother-in-law, Don, and her father-in-law, Ed Vanden Bosch.