Macy, Helen Marie (Vanderpol) 1918-2002

MACY, VANDERPOL, BOOT, VERSTEEGH

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Date: 5/7/2005 at 20:45:12

Newton Daily News February 6, 2002
Macy, Helen Marie (Vanderpol)

SULLY — Helen Marie Vanderpol Macy, 83, of Sully died from complications of dementia Monday, Feb. 4, at Heritage Manor Care Center in Newton. Funeral services will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the First Reformed Church in Sully. Burial will be at Sully Cemetery. Van Dyk-Duven Funeral Home in Pella is handling arrangements.

Friends may call today at the funeral home where family will be available from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Memorials will be accepted to the music department of the First Reformed Church in Sully.

The daughter of Simon and Helene Boot Vanderpol, she was born March 18, 1918, in rural Sully. She graduated from the Sully High School and from Central College in 1939 with a major in English and a minor in music. She taught for two years in Ottosen. On June 18, 1941, she married Bryce Ogden Macy in Sully. She then taught school in Sully until her husband was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. They returned to Sully in 1945, where she was a substitute teacher for several years. She was involved in the music department of the First Reformed Church in Sully, where she directed choirs for 40 years. She also taught piano lessons.

Mrs. Macy was a member of the First Reformed Church, charter member of APRES MIDI [a social group involved in the community], advisory committee for the Lynnville-Sully school district and assisted with editing the Sully centennial book.

Survivors include her husband, three sons and a daughter-in-law, Curtis and Linda of Cleveland, Tenn., Mark of Sun Prairie, Wis., and William of St. Paul, Minn., two granddaughters; a great-grand-son, a sister-in-law, Wilma Vanderpol of Pella and a step-brother, Ward Versteegh and his wife Almetta of Sacramento, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her parents, stepmother, a sister, two brothers and a stepbrother.

Originally submitted on Wed Oct 23 21:20:24 2002