Henry made profession of faith in the Peoria Christian Reformed Church on September 9, 1945 moving his membership to First Reformed Church of Sully in 1950. He was a faithful member, active over time in Men’s Brotherhood, from its inception to its demise, instructor of a boys’ junior high Sunday School class, and attending services until March 2020.
As a service to the community, he served as secretary-treasurer of the Lynn Grove school district for the last three years of its existence ending with the 1955-56 school year, and the Lynnville-Sully Community School District was established. He also served for some years on the Jasper County Farm Bureau Board.
Henry’s legacy of land stewardship began in 1949 when he laid the contour lines for the original farm. He was a lifelong learner, a historian, and a story-teller.
In 1991 Henry and Alma moved to 205 5th Street in Sully living in their home until 2016 when they moved to the Pella Manor later transitioning to The Cottages in 2018.
Henry was preceded in death by his wife Alma Jane in January 2019, his infant daughter Jane, his son-in-law Norman Klein, his brother and wife, Leonard and Henrietta Veldhuizen, his sisters and their husbands, Gladys and Marvin Vander Molen, and Geraldine and Arnold Dykhuis, and his sister-in-law and her husband Luella and Jerry Berglund.
Those left to cherish Henry’s memory are his five children and their families.
He is also survived by a brother-in-law and his wife Clarence and Linda Rozendaal and many nieces and nephews.
[Adapted from Garden Chapel Funeral Home web site]
Henry made profession of faith in the Peoria Christian Reformed Church on September 9, 1945 moving his membership to First Reformed Church of Sully in 1950. He was a faithful member, active over time in Men’s Brotherhood, from its inception to its demise, instructor of a boys’ junior high Sunday School class, and attending services until March 2020.
As a service to the community, he served as secretary-treasurer of the Lynn Grove school district for the last three years of its existence ending with the 1955-56 school year, and the Lynnville-Sully Community School District was established. He also served for some years on the Jasper County Farm Bureau Board.
Henry’s legacy of land stewardship began in 1949 when he laid the contour lines for the original farm. He was a lifelong learner, a historian, and a story-teller.
In 1991 Henry and Alma moved to 205 5th Street in Sully living in their home until 2016 when they moved to the Pella Manor later transitioning to The Cottages in 2018.
Henry was preceded in death by his wife Alma Jane in January 2019, his infant daughter Jane, his son-in-law Norman Klein, his brother and wife, Leonard and Henrietta Veldhuizen, his sisters and their husbands, Gladys and Marvin Vander Molen, and Geraldine and Arnold Dykhuis, and his sister-in-law and her husband Luella and Jerry Berglund.
Those left to cherish Henry’s memory are his five children and their families.
He is also survived by a brother-in-law and his wife Clarence and Linda Rozendaal and many nieces and nephews.
[Adapted from Garden Chapel Funeral Home web site]
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