Vander Wilt, Jacob Myron "Jack" 1926-2017

VANDERWILT, VANOORT, HEEMSTRA

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:34

Mr. Jack Vander Wilt, age 90, of Orange City, passed away on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at the Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull.

There will be a funeral service on Saturday, July 15, at 11:00am, at the First Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. Mark Haverdink will officiate. Interment will follow the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. Visitation will be after 5:00pm on Friday, with the family present from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Jacob Myron was born on September 21, 1926, at Boyden, the son of Adrian and Jennie (Van Oort) Vander Wilt. He was raised in the Middleburg area and attended the Boyden Community School. His spent his last two years of high school at the Northwestern Academy in Orange City and also attended the Northwestern Junior College and the Nettleton Business College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

On June 10, 1947, he married Elynor Ruth Heemstra at the First Reformed Church. They made their home in Orange City, where he was a manager at Silent Sioux and a salesman at K-Products. They then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was the office manager at Words of Hope. In retirement, they returned to Orange City, where he made deliveries for The Flower Cart. More recently, they became residents of the Pioneer Memorial Home in Orange City. In April of this year, he moved to Pleasant Acres.

He was a member of the First Reformed Church and when in Michigan, the Zion Reformed Church in Grandville. He enjoyed fishing with his brother-in-law, John Landegent, watching Northwestern College sports, farming, and gardening.

Survivors include his wife of more that seventy years; a son and his wife, Jay and Jill Vander Wilt, of Ankeny; two daughters, Gayle, and her husband, Steve Newby, of Lebanon, Ohio; and Jaclyn Emry, and her fiancé, Jay Joersz, both of Sioux Falls; seven grandchildren, Alicia (Louis) Adams, Brent (Gail) Vander Wilt, Kyle (Meredith) Vander Wilt, Ashley (Chris) Ogden, Angela Jones, Andrea Newby, and Stephanie (Jason) Reynolds; thirteen great-grandchildren; and a brother and his wife, Marlyn and Judy Vander Wilt, of Holland, Michigan.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Memorials may be directed to Words of Hope.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary,