VanderVegte, Dennis L. 1952-2003

VANDERVEGTE, MILLER, HULST

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/6/2010 at 05:16:18

DENNIS L. VANDER VEGTE
ORANGE CITY, Iowa - Dennis L. Vander Vegte, 51, of Orange City passed away Monday, June 23, 2003, at Orange City Municipal Hospital Long Term Care Facility.
Services will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City, with the Rev. Jonathan Opgenorth officiating. Burial will be in West Lawn Cemetery. Visitation will be after 5 p.m. today, with the family present 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the funeral home.
Dennis Lee was born June 15, 1952, in Orange City, the son of Gerrit Helmus and Doretta Lena (Miller) Vander Vegte. He was raised in Orange City, where he graduated from Orange City Christian School and Maurice-Orange City Community High School.
On Sept. 21, 1974, he married, Sharla Hulst in Hull, Iowa. The marriage ended about 1985.
He was a lifelong resident of Orange City, where he was employed in the loom department of K-Products and was a painter for Aarsen Painting.
He enjoyed fishing, hunting and bowling, having a high score of 298. He liked visiting with family and friends, especially going to the Adult Activity Center, where he played cribbage and snooker.
In 1990, he was diagnosed with Alpha-Antitrypsin Deficiency, a rare lung disease, which afflicts only 100,000 people a year.
Survivors include two daughters and their husbands, Gina and Anthony Cooper of Sioux City, and Holly and Blair Sheriff of Shermans Dale, Pa.; three granddaughters, Kinsey and Karen Cooper and Ellianna Sheriff; six brothers and sisters, Dwaine Vander Vegte and his wife, Jan of Orange City, Patty Gill of Sioux City, Rachel and her husband, Larry McBride of Clinton, Mo., Arlan Vander Vegte of Orange City, Debbi and her husband, Jon Van Peursem of Maurice, Iowa, and David "Chuck" Vander Vegte and his wife, Ann of Orange City; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Source: Sioux City Journal; after 6-23-2003