Mary Jane Bomgaars

Mary Jane (Bates) Bomgaars, 83, of Springdale, Ark., formerly of Sioux City, died Monday, March 10, 2008, in Springdale.

Services will be 3 p.m. Saturday March 15, 2008 at Peace Reformed Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. Robert Rook officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 14, 2008 with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 6 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mary Jane (Bates) Bomgaars was born Aug. 3, 1924, in Sioux City, the daughter of Merritt D. and Pearl (Luther) Bates. She was a graduate of Sioux City Central High School and Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing. She served in the U.S. Navy as a registered nurse during World War II. Following the service, she worked for Dr. John Hinkin before retiring to raise her family.

She married Harold Arthur Bomgaars on March 28, 1948.

She was a longtime member of Crescent Park Methodist Church. She volunteered in the Reach to Recovery program of the American Cancer Society, was a Cub Scout leader and worked for many years at the home office of Bomgaars in Sioux City.

She is survived by a son and his wife, Roger and Jane Bomgaars of Dakota Dunes, S.D.; a daughter and her husband, Barbara and Dr. John Redwine of Springdale, Ark.; a daughter and her husband, Sandra and Dr. Jim Wilkins of Christianville, Haiti; a son and his wife, William and Ann Bomgaars of Monument, Colo.; a son, Joseph Bomgaars of Denver, Colo.; a daughter and her husband, Angela and Rick Jansons of Denver, Colo.; 13 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a brother, Dr. Merritt W. Bates of Escondido, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Sheila Herbert of Rock Rapids, Iowa; a brother, Dr. Paul Bates of Fort Collins, Colo.; and a sister, Susan Conway of Springfield, Mo.

Memorials may be directed to the Haiti Health Ministries, P.O. Box 175, 110 E. Forest, Girard, KS. 66743 or the Harold and Mary Bomgaars Center for Cancer Care at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center, Sioux City.