Beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and brother, Peter Ira Noteboom, died on Sunday, November 13, 2005, at the Orange City Municipal Hospital, due to complications from multiple cancers, after a brief illness.

There will be a memorial service on Thursday, November 17, 2005, at 10:30am, at the First Christian Reformed Church in Orange City, with the Rev. Timothy Ouwinga celebrating. Interment will be prior to the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. There will be a family prayer service on Thursday, at 9:30am, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Visitation will be after 2:00pm on Wednesday, November 16, with the family present from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, at the funeral home.

Peter "Pete" Ira Noteboom was born on October 18, 1926, in Orange City, Iowa, the son of Arie and Lucy (De Jong) Noteboom. Arie was the son of Peter P. Noteboom, a member of the original 1870 group of settlers of Orange City. Pete attended the Orange City Christian School, Western Christian High School in Hull, and the Northwestern Classical Academy and Junior College in Orange City. From 1945 to 1946, he served in the United States Navy.

He married Leona Irene Faber on July 30, 1950, in Sioux Center, Iowa.

They made their home in Orange City, where Pete and Leona operated several well-known businesses in the area, including the Noteboom ice business ("For Pete's Sake, Use Ice"), the Orange City Standard Service Station, the Million Dollar Corner Service Station, the Hawarden Premium Gas Station, and later, OC-Trailers, Inc.

In the 1950s and 60s, Pete was known among pigeon buyers as the "Pigeon King". His pigeon business was perhaps the largest and most successful in the country. Countless young people and community and church groups earned extra income selling him pigeons.

Over the years, he raised and sold horses, geese, calves and cattle, yet was perhaps best known as the keeper of American bison on the pastures east of Orange City.

For the past twenty years, Pete managed the very successful OC-Trailers, Inc., of Orange City, selling trailers of all kinds across the United States.

Mr. Noteboom was a lifetime member of the First Christian Reformed Church, where he served as an elder and Sunday school teacher. He was also a member of the boards of directors of the Orange City Christian School, Unity Christian High School in Orange City, Dordt College in Sioux Center, and Hope Haven in Rock Valley. In addition, he was a Crossroad Bible instructor and a fifty year member of the Pressman - Kosters American Legion Post in Orange City. He contributed to various other church and civic organizations and was a dedicated supporter of Christian education.

Throughout his varied and colorful career, he lived a consistent model of integrity, service, generosity, and care. The love of his life was his work and family. His faith in Christ's promise of "making all things new" was evident in his daily life and sustained him and his family during his illness. He walked in the ways of the Lord and was "blessed and a blessing to others" (Psalm 128).

Those family members left cherishing his memory include his wife, Leona; three sons and their wives, Darrell and Kathy (Branderhorst) Noteboom, of Alton Mark and Barb (Minten) Noteboom, of Orange City; and Peter and Jeanette (Romkema) Noteboom, of Toronto, Canada; grandchildren, Shanelle and Ryan Raines, Nicholas and Maria Noteboom, Shondra and Evan Wielenga, Travis Noteboom, Schuyler and Amber Noteboom, Stacia Noteboom, Reuben Noteboom, and Jude Noteboom; great-grandchildren Eli, Raeleigh, Nicholas, Hunter, and Haley; step great-grandchild, Jenna; brothers and sisters Tom Noteboom, and his wife Elinor; Luetta Oolman; Vernon Noteboom, and his wife, Carol; Arie Noteboom, and his wife, Mary; and Ron Noteboom, and his wife, Joanne, all of Orange City; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Gerald Geurkink, Chester and Marilyn Faber, and Howard and Garneth Faber, all of San Marcos, California; and Evelyn (Faber) and Henry Pruim, of Orlando, Florida, and step-brothers and step-sisters, Harold Boonstra, and his wife, Ann, of Orland Park, Illinois; and Robert Boonstra, and his wife, Myrna; Norman Boonstra, and his wife, Velma; Lois, and her husband, Frank Vogel; Mary Ellen, and her husband, Vernon Mouw; and Rudolph Boonstra, all of Orange City.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Arie and Lucy; step-mother, Anne (Extra, Boonstra) Noteboom; brother, also named Peter Ira; brother-in-law, Glen Oolman; and sisters-in-law, Bernice (Gerritsen) Noteboom and Joyce (Faber) Geurkink.

Casket bearers will be his brothers, Tom, Vernon, Arie, and Ron Noteboom, and his sons, Darrell, Mark, and Peter Noteboom.

Honorary casket bearers will be the grandchildren Shanelle Raines, Nicholas Noteboom, Shondra Wielenga, Travis Noteboom, Schuyler Noteboom, Stacia Noteboom, Reuben Noteboom and Jude Noteboom.

Special attendant to the casket bearers is Luetta Oolman.

Memorials may be made to the Christian education institution of your choice.

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