Doppenberg, Jeannette M. (Mrs. William "Bill") 1917-2016

DOPPENBERG, MOUW, VANMEETEREN

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting (email)
Date: 7/19/2016 at 19:20:50

Mrs. Jeanette Doppenberg, age 98, of Orange City, passed away on Sunday, June 19, 2016, at the Prairie Ridge Care Center in Orange City.

There will be a memorial service on Saturday, June 25, at 2:30pm, at the Prairie Ridge Care Center in Orange City. The Rev. Mark Haverdink will officiate. Interment will be prior to the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. There will be a prayer service on Saturday, at 1:30pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Visitation will be after 5:30pm on Friday, with the family present from 5:30pm to 7:00pm, at the funeral home.

Jeanette Margaret was born on July 26, 1917, on a farm south of Boyden, near Middleburg, the daughter of John M. and Dora (Van Meeteren) Mouw. She attended seven years of country school and graduated from four years of high school at the Newkirk Consolidated High School.

On April 21, 1938, she married William “Bill” Doppenberg. They made their home in Middleburg, where she was a homemaker and assisted Bill with his business of operating a portable feed grinder for area farmers.

They started farming in 1948, first near Newkirk, and then north of Alton. They moved to Orange City in 1960, and Jeanette started working at the Village Drug Store, which she did for 23 years. She then volunteered at Hands Around the World until she was 90 years old. Bill passed away on January 8, 2013, in Orange City, after 74 years and 9 months of marriage.

Jeanette was baptized and made profession of faith at the Free Grace Reformed Church in Middleburg, where she was one of the organists for several years. Currently she was a member of the First Reformed Church in Orange City, where she was active in Ruth Circle and Blocks and Knots Quilters group.

She enjoyed doing hand work, quilting, counted cross stitch, needle point, and especially braiding rugs with five strands of wool. She was an avid reader and did crossword puzzles and Sudoku.

Survivors include her two daughters, Joan, and her husband, Richard Eimas, of Reston, Virginia, and Lois Doppenberg, of Anaheim, California; two grandchildren, Christopher Mark Eimas, and his wife, Necolle, of Arlington, Virginia, and Susan Jessica Eimas, of Reston; two great-grandchildren, Alaina Mary and Colton William Eimas; a sister, Pauline Vander Zwaag, of Orange City; and many nephews and nieces.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by three brothers.

Memorials may be directed to the large print collection at the Orange City Public Library.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.