Visitation for Adrian Nouwens of Lynden will be from 1 to 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday at Gillies Funeral Home. Burial will be at 1:15 p.m. Thursday in Monumenta Cemetery, followed by a funeral at 2 p.m. at Second Christian Reformed Church. Mr. Nouwens died Sunday, Dec. 14, 1977. He was 97. Born July 3, 1900, to Peter and Johanna Treffers Nouwens in Holland, he moved to the Lynden area at the age of 9. He married Bessie Brunger April 14, 1927, in Lynden. She died in 1979. He married Winifred DeKuber in 1980 in Lynden. She died in 1987. Mr. Nouwens operated a dairy farm near Ferndale for many years and worked at Brooks Manufacturing and Whatcom County Road Department. After retiring from farming, he moved to Lynden and worked as a custodian at Northwest Medical Center and St. Joseph Hospital. Mr. Nouwens was a member of Second Christian Reformed Church. He also was preceded in death by sister Pearl Heutink and half-brother John Treffers. Survivors include sons Preston Nouwens of Tracy, Calif., and Gerald Nouwens of Bothell; daughters Gladys Heinrichs of Tracy, Dorothy Ruswick of Blaine and Bernice Yarborough of Fremont, Calif.; stepdaughters Nellie Knudzen, Betty Weg and Joan DeBoer, all of Lynden; stepsons Dennis DeKubber of Lynden and Jack DeKubber of Snohomish; and numerous other relatives.
