Menno Ritsema 1920 - 1997

Mike Ritsema of Newtown Square, Delaware County, PA was born on January 26, 1920 in Michigan United States to Albert Fridus Ritsema and Susan (Jansen) Ritsema. He had siblings Fred Ritsema, Sadie or (Sarah) Ritsema, John Peter Ritsema, James "Jim"Ritsema, Gertrude Ritsema, Gertrude Ritsema II, Peter A. Ritsema, Henry Ritsema, George Ritsema, Magdelina "Lena" Ritsema, and Garrett "Pat" Ritsema. He married Eva (Oeschlager) Ritsema in 1953, and had children Rita Lorraine Ritsema and Robert Menno Ritsema. Mike Ritsema died at age 77 years old on June 9, 1997, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Arlington County, VA.