- Kathryn Dunn, 83, of Nampa, died Monday, Sept. 25, 1989, at the Nampa hospital of natural causes. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, at the North Nampa Church of the Nazarene. The Rev. Harold L. Hampton Sr. will officiate, assisted by one of Mrs. Dunn's grandsons, Rick Markus. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Caldwell.
Kathryn was born Aug. 1, 1906, at Vrouwen, Prochie, Friesland (The Netherlands), a daughter of Sybrant and Anna DeBoer Koopal. She came with her family to the U.S. in 1911. She was raised and attended school at Platte, South Dakota, where she married William Markus Jan. 21, 1927. They came to Idaho in 1937 where she had since made her home. She graduated from practical nurses training in June 1959. Mr. Markus died Sept. 27, 1972. She married Deloss J. Dunn, a long-time family friend, June 8, 1973.
Survivors include her husband, Deloss of Nampa; five sons and their wives, Kenneth and Charlotte Markus of Sacramento, Calif., Bruce and Darlyne Markus, Lloyd and Sara Markus, Melburn and Sharon Markus and Leroy and Cheryl Markus, all of Nampa; three daughters and their husbands, Betty and LeRoy Dahlerup of Mission Hills, S. Dakota, Viola and Bill Bailey of Boise and Linda Hoover of Sacramento; a stepson and his wife, Perry J. and Eula Dunn of Nampa; two brothers, William Koopal of Boise and Antone Talsma of Sheldon, Iowa; 29 grandchildren; 45 great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Her parents, two brothers and a grandchild preceded her in death.
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