Betty Ann Bosman

Betty, 87, passed away on March 29, 2021. Born in Evergreen Park, Illinois, on March 9, 1934, she was the daughter of Paul and Kate (Mulder) Zwaanstra. She was preceded in death by her husband Charles A. Bosman, with whom she celebrated 59 years in marriage. Celebrating her life are her children, Jim & Stacey Bosman, Ginny & Jeff Carpenter, Chip & Lynn Bosman, and Beth & Diar Shipman; and sixteen grandchildren and fifteen great-children who knew her as “Mama B.”

Growing up in the Chicago area, after high school, courtship, and early married life, Betty and Charles took their family in 1958 to live and grow in Denver, Colorado, where they remained as residents the rest of their years. Betty a was woman of deep and abiding faith, and a long-time member of Denver’s Third Christian Reformed Church, where she was active in many volunteer capacities; she was a Sunday School teacher and leader within the Sun Valley Ministries in the 1970s; she was instrumental in welcoming and facilitating the immigration and assimilation of several Cambodian families to Denver in the 1980s; she served as program volunteer in the Clermont senior facility for many years; and she was a long-time supporter of World Vision International, sponsoring many orphan children over several decades.

Betty loved music and the mountains; she loved God’s creation and creatures, wild and domestic; she shared with Charles a love for travel, finding in adventure also opportunity for returned grace and hospitality to persons encountered and befriended world-wide, especially in their favorite places in Mexico.

Betty enjoyed being outdoors, working around her home and rose garden. Her greatest joy, however, was being present with her family, playing her organ and piano, and having all participate together in songs of praise.

Betty is survived by her sister, Carolyn Tilstra of Phoenix, AZ; her sister-in-law, Clara Buikema & William Buikema of Denver, CO; and her sister-in-law, Audrey Bosman of Denver, CO.

The Bosman, Carpenter and Shipman families have been so blessed by the love of our Mom and Dad and by their abiding love for God. God has blessed us beyond words—“Great is Thy Faithfulness”

Psalm 78:4, 6--- “We will not hide them from their descendants: we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power and the wonders he has done. So the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.”