Funeral services for Myrtle Moline Van Dyke, 96, of Pella, who died Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004, at Pella Regional Health Center Long Term Care Unit, were held Thursday, March 4, at the Open Bible Church in Pella. Pastor Aaron Loree officiated at the services. Joann Pfadenhauer was organist. Special music was provided by Amy Vander Werf Terpstra, vocalist and Ross Vander Werf, accompanist.
Interment was at Oakwood Cemetery in Pella. Casket bearers were grandchildren Dan Houser, Duane Houser, Denise Johnson, Debbie Witham, Brad Van Dyke, and Brian Van Dyke.
Myrtle was born on Sept. 5, 1907, on a farm between Cordova and Highway 14. She was the daughter of Dick and Anna Jane Feather Koopmans. As an infant she and her family moved to Pella where she attended Pella Public Schools and completed the eighth grade.
She married William Van Dyke on Feb. 20, 1929, in the Third Reformed Church parsonage. To this union two children were born, Norma Jean and Roy Glen. William died in 1982. Bill, as he was called, was a well known interior decorator.
Myrtle was a charter member of the Open Bible Church. She was very active in the church as secretary/treasurer, deaconess, Sunday School teacher, and pianist. After the children were married, she worked at Pella Corporation.
After their retirement, Myrtle and Bill had spent their last ten years traveling, spending winters in Florida and Texas, and fishing in the summer in Minnesota and northern Iowa. In the fall of 1982 Myrtle moved to Prairie Village in Pella. In January 2002 she moved to the Long Term Care Unit of the Pella Regional Health Center.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; two brothers, Harry and Paul Koopmans; and three sisters, Erma Vander Werf, Grace Aalbers, and Alice Hoeksema.
She is survived by a daughter, Norma Houser and her husband, Bob, of Pella; a son, Roy Van Dyke and his wife, Barbara, of Littleton, Colo.; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Alice Schultz of Des Moines; and a special "daughter," Sandra Allgood of Oskaloosa.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Pella.
Arrangements were made by Garden Chapel Funeral Home in Pella.
Knoxville Journal Express, March 8, 2004
Funeral services for Myrtle Moline Van Dyke, 96, of Pella, who died Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004, at Pella Regional Health Center Long Term Care Unit, were held Thursday, March 4, at the Open Bible Church in Pella. Pastor Aaron Loree officiated at the services. Joann Pfadenhauer was organist. Special music was provided by Amy Vander Werf Terpstra, vocalist and Ross Vander Werf, accompanist.
Interment was at Oakwood Cemetery in Pella. Casket bearers were grandchildren Dan Houser, Duane Houser, Denise Johnson, Debbie Witham, Brad Van Dyke, and Brian Van Dyke.
Myrtle was born on Sept. 5, 1907, on a farm between Cordova and Highway 14. She was the daughter of Dick and Anna Jane Feather Koopmans. As an infant she and her family moved to Pella where she attended Pella Public Schools and completed the eighth grade.
She married William Van Dyke on Feb. 20, 1929, in the Third Reformed Church parsonage. To this union two children were born, Norma Jean and Roy Glen. William died in 1982. Bill, as he was called, was a well known interior decorator.
Myrtle was a charter member of the Open Bible Church. She was very active in the church as secretary/treasurer, deaconess, Sunday School teacher, and pianist. After the children were married, she worked at Pella Corporation.
After their retirement, Myrtle and Bill had spent their last ten years traveling, spending winters in Florida and Texas, and fishing in the summer in Minnesota and northern Iowa. In the fall of 1982 Myrtle moved to Prairie Village in Pella. In January 2002 she moved to the Long Term Care Unit of the Pella Regional Health Center.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; two brothers, Harry and Paul Koopmans; and three sisters, Erma Vander Werf, Grace Aalbers, and Alice Hoeksema.
She is survived by a daughter, Norma Houser and her husband, Bob, of Pella; a son, Roy Van Dyke and his wife, Barbara, of Littleton, Colo.; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Alice Schultz of Des Moines; and a special "daughter," Sandra Allgood of Oskaloosa.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Pella.
Arrangements were made by Garden Chapel Funeral Home in Pella.
Knoxville Journal Express, March 8, 2004
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