Heitink, Naomi Jean (Vanderlinden) (1929-1989)

VANDERLINDEN, HEITINK

Posted By: Andrew (email)
Date: 8/28/2010 at 16:23:42

Naomi-Jean Heitink. 59, of Atlantic. formerly of Grinnell, died Monday, Sept. 11, in Atlantic. Funeral services were conducted Thursday at the First United Methodist Church of Atlantic with the Revs. James King and Kirk Stump officiating. Burial was in At­lantic Cemelery. The daughter of C.W. and Dorothy Ruth LaRue Beggs Vanderlinden, she was born December 8, 1929 in Bloomfield and was raised on a farm near Promise City. She attended Hickory Ridge School at Promise City and Seymour High School. She graduatcd from Iowa School of Cosmetology in Des Moines in 1949 and worked as a beautician in Grinnell for 10 years. On June 25, 1950. she was married Gerald Heitink of Grinneil. and the they lived here until moving to Atlantic in 1963. Mrs. Heitink was em­ployed at Valley Restaurant and Spurgeon's in Atlantic. She was a member of First United Methodist Church. Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Becky Kramer of Thornton. Colo.. and Denise Masker of Atlantic; seven grandchildren; her mother. Ruth Vanderlinden of Colfax; two sisters, JoAnn Vanderlinden of Seymour and Charlotte Hysell of Colfax; and a brother, Bill Vanderlin­den of Seymour. She was preceded in death by her father and a son, Dou­glas.