VandeBrake, Harriet Mae (Mrs. Duane Glenn) 1930-2013

VANDEBRAKE, VANDERMAATEN, KLEINHESSELINK

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 1/22/2013 at 15:18:46

Harriet Mae Vande Brake
October 1, 1930 - January 16, 2013
Mrs. Harriet Vande Brake, age 82, of Maurice, passed away on Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at the Orange City Area Health System Hospital.

There will be a memorial service on Saturday, January 19, at 11:00am, at the First Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. Timothy Breen will officiate. Interment will be prior to the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City.
Harriet Mae was born on October 1, 1930, in rural Alton, the daughter of Henry and Allie (Vander Maaten) Kleinhesselink. She was raised on a farm near Alton and graduated from the Newkirk high school.

On June 29, 1949, she married Duane Glenn Vande Brake in the parsonage of the First Reformed Church in Orange City. They made their home on a farm just a fourth mile north of Duane's home place.

Mrs. Vande Brake was a member of the First Reformed Church, where she participated in the women’s ministries.

Besides being a farmer’s wife and homemaker, she enjoyed listening to local basketball games on the radio, solving word search and jigsaw puzzles, scrap booking, gardening, and canning. Spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren was very important to her.

Survivors include her three sons, Larry Vande Brake, and his wife, Peggy, of Orange City; Dennis Vande Brake, of Maurice; and Mark Vande Brake, and his wife, Lori, of Orange City; eight grandchildren, Jason Vande Brake, and his wife Danyelle, of Le Mars; Justin Vande Brake and Jordan Vande Brake, both of Hospers; Jenni, and her husband, Jesse Kroese, of Orange City; Matthew Balt of Mankato, Minnesota; Jason Balt, and his wife, Niki, of Cape Coral, Florida; Tony Vande Brake, and his fiancé, Kolbie De Jong, both of Orange City; and Mariah Vande Brake, of Azusa, California; five great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Harriet Kleinhesselink and Edna Vande Brake, both of Orange City; and a brother-in-law, Gene Vande Brake, of Maurice.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Harold Kleinhesselink, and his wife Dorothy "Dode", and Kenneth Kleinhesselink; a brother-in-law, Merle Vande Brake; and a sister-in-law, Jennie Vande Brake.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home, Orange City, IA., obit.