Kleinwolterink, Johanna (Mrs. Warren) 1922-2013

KLEINWOLTERINK, WESTRA, VANDYKE

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/28/2013 at 11:12:09

Johanna Kleinwolterink
February 3, 1922 - April 22, 2013

Mrs. Johanna Kleinwolterink, age 91, of Orange City, passed away on Monday, April 22, 2013, at the Orange City Area Health System Hospital.

There will be a memorial service on Saturday, April 27, at 2:30pm, at the First Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. Mark Haverdink will officiate. Interment will be prior to the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City.

Johanna was born on February 3, 1922, at Hull, the daughter of John and Dora (Westra) Van Dyke. She was raised on farms near Hull and Inwood, where she enjoyed all of the farm’s activities. She attended a country school through the eighth grade and in her youth sang in the teen choirs at the First Reformed Church in Hull and the Inwood Reformed Church.

On March 10, 1950, she married Warren Kleinwolterink. They lived on a farm two miles north of Orange City for 48 years, where she was a homemaker and helped care for her ailing mother. In 1998, they moved into Orange City.

Jo enjoyed taking walks, marveling at God’s creation. She liked sewing, reading, and gardening. She looked forward to getting together with her son and his wife and taking care of her grandchildren.

She was employed at Bradley Knitting Mills in Delavan, Wisconsin, doing piece work, making and sewing sweaters. She also worked at the bakery, the Pioneer Memorial Home, Harkers, Advance Brands, and for eighteen years at Tyson Foods, all in Orange City, retiring in 2003.

Mrs. Kleinwolterink was a member of the First Reformed Church, where she participated in the women’s ministries and coffee break Bible studies.

Survivors include her husband of more than 63 years; a son, Galen Kleinwolterink, of Orange City; three grandchildren, Aaron Kleinwolterink, and his wife, Molly, of Olathe, Kansas; Rachel, and her husband, Jonathan Mascarenas, of Lonsdale, Minnesota; and Nathan Kleinwolterink, of Burnsville, Minnesota; five great-grandchildren, Isabel and Elijah Mascarenas, and Noah, Ainsley, and Henry Kleinwolterink; four sisters, Margaret Franken, Pearl Kooima, Dorothy, and her husband, George Fedders, and June, and her husband, Bernard Ver Berg; and many nephews and nieces.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter-in-law, Rebecca Kleinwolterink; two brothers, Garrett Van Dyke and infant John Dwane Van Dyke; a sister-in-law, Percella Van Dyke, and two brothers-in-law, James Franken and Clarence Kooima.
Source: Oolman Funeral Home, Orange City, IA., obit.