Haverdink, Jane Grace (Mrs. Howard William) 1937-2019

HAVERDINK, RENS, VERMEULEN

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:35

Mrs. Jane Haverdink, age 81 of Orange City, passed away on Sunday, March 3, 2019, at the Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community in Orange City.

There will be a memorial service on Friday, March 8, at 11:00am, at the First Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. Timothy Breen and 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 family prayer service on Friday, at 10:00am, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Visitation will be after 4:00pm on Thursday, with the family present from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at the funeral home.

Jane Grace was born on November 5, 1937, at Rock Rapids, the daughter of Henry and Johanna Cornelia (Vermeulen) Rens. She was raised on a farm northwest of Lester and completed the twelfth grade at the Larchwood high school. She attended Northwestern Junior College in Orange City for two years and received her teaching certificate in 1957.

On July 23, 1958, she married Howard William Haverdink in Lester. They made their home on his family’s farm south of Orange City. She briefly taught school before the couple started their own family. She enjoyed working on the farm, helping with the pigs, milking cows, and anything else that needed to be done. She also worked as a librarian at the Orange City Public Library for more than 34 years. In 1994, they moved to a home in Orange City. Howard passed away on April 25, 1999, in Sioux City, after more than forty years of marriage. In January of 2018, Jane became a resident of the Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community.

Mrs. Haverdink was baptized and made her profession of faith at the Bethel Reformed Church in Lester. She later became a member of the First Reformed Church in Orange City where she participated in the Priscilla and Mary-Martha Circles, women’s work groups, the Tulip Festival church stand, and had served as president of the Reformed Church Women’s Ministries. She was also a regular volunteer at the Prairie Ridge Care Center in Orange City.

Jane was an avid reader and never stopped learning new things.

Survivors include her three children and their spouses, Carol and Mark Kleyer, of Orange City; Jay and Lori Haverdink, of Overland Park, Kansas; and Mark and Suzanne Haverdink, of Orange City; five grandchildren, Jenifer, and her husband, Josh Crompton; Kristi, and her husband, Clint Carne; Matt Kleyer, and his wife, Nikita; Allison Haverdink; and Eli Haverdink; six great-grandchildren, Dylan Crompton; Cade, Archer, and Hazel Carne; and Evie and Jorah Kleyer; two brothers, Bert Rens, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and John Rens, and his wife, Ruth, of Larchwood; a brother-in-law and his wife, Eugene and Thelma Haverdink, of Orange City; and a sister-in-law, Audrey Haverdink, of Ankeny.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Megan Kleyer; a great-grandson, Shane Kleyer; two sisters and their husbands, Margaret and Ben Kracht, and Nellie and Tom Browne; a brother, Case Rens; two sisters-in-law, Mary Rens, and Mayris, and her husband Koenraad De Jong; and a brother-in-law, Virgil Haverdink.

Memorials may be directed to the First Reformed Church Media Ministries or the Awakening Grace Foundation at www.theawakeninggracefoundation.org.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.