VanGelder, Antoinette 'Net" (Mrs. Dick) 1924-2013

VANGELDER, VANDERVEGTE, SCHOTTERT

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 3/11/2013 at 12:23:38

Antoinette "Net" Van Gelder
April 17, 1924 - January 22, 2013
Lenox, Iowa | Age 88
Funeral service for Antoinette "Net" Van Gelder, age 88, of Lenox, who passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at the Lenox Care Center will be held Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 10:00 AM at the United Presbyterian Church in Lenox, IA. Interment will be held in the North Fairview Cemetery in Lenox, IA. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Lenox.

Antoinette Vander Vegte was born on April 17, 1924 in Hull, Iowa; she was the daughter of Dick and Grace (Schottert) Vander Vegte. She was raised in Hull, IA until 1937 when her family moved to Orange City, IA. On Februrary 14, 1952, she married Dick Van Gelder, widower, in Orange City, IA. At that time she became the mother of Dicks's three children Darwin, Rodney, and Jean. Antoinette and Dick made their home in Wisconsin for many years where they were blessed with three more children, Terry, Paul, and Chuck. In 1975 they moved to the rural Lenox, IA area to farm.
Antoinette enjoyed her annual trips to Texas with Dick, family reunions, gardening, reading, and writing weekly letters to her sister Gertrude.

She is survived by her husband, Dick E. Van Gelder of Lenox; her children: Darwin Van Gelder and his wife Lanor of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Rodney Van Gelder and his wife Ginger of Holland, Michigan, Jean Tjarks and her husband Wayne of Holland, Michigan, Terry Van Gelder of Escondido, California, Paul Van Gelder and his wife Leesa of rural Lenox, Iowa, and Chuck Van Gelder and his wife Rachelle of Rural Lenox, Iowa; her fifteen grandchildren; her twelve great-grandchildren; and her many nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her parents: Dick and Grace; her siblings: Herman, Ed, Henry, Gerrit, Dick, Johanna, Henrietta, Minnie, and Gertrude.

Source: Ritchie Funeral Home of Lenox, IA., obit