VanderVegte, Dennis 1952-2003

VANDERVEGTE, MILLER, HULST

Posted By: Janet Bosler - Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/1/2013 at 17:11:41

Sioux County Capital Orange City - Later added Capital Democrat June 26, 2003

Born: 6-15-1952
Died: 6-23-2003

Dennis Vander Vegte, age 51, of Orange City died Monday, June 23, 2003, at the Orange City Municipal Hospital Long Term Care Facility.

A funeral service was held Wednesday , June 25, at 1:30pm at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. The Rev. Jonathan Opgenorth officiated. Burial followed at West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City.

Dennis Lee was born June 15, 1952, in Orange City, the son of Gerrit Helmus and Doretta Lena (Miller) Vander Vegte. He was raised at Orange City where he graduated from the Orange City Christian School and the Maurice-Orange City Community School.

On Sept. 21, 1974, he married Sharla Hulst at Hull. That marriage ended about 1985.

Denny was a lifetime 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 his two daughters and their husbands, Gina and Anthony Cooper of Sioux City and Holly and Blair Sheriff of ShermansDale, 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 and David "Chuck" Vander Vegte and his wife, Ann of Orange City, and several nephews and nieces.

He was preceded in death by his parents.