De Haan, Stanley Lloyd 1930-2020

DEHAAN, VANZYL, ROHRS

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

Mr. Stanley De Haan, age 90, of Orange City, passed away on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, at the Orange City Area Health System.

There will be a funeral service on Saturday, July 25, at 10:30am, at the American Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. Michael Hardeman will officiate. Protocols established for COVID-19 will be followed, including spatially-distanced seating and face coverings. The service will also be live streamed at www.facebook.com/AmericanReformedChurch/. Interment will follow the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. Visitation without the family present will be on Friday, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Stanley Lloyd was born on April 10, 1930, in Orange City, the son of Henry A.B. and Cornelia (Van Zyl) De Haan. He was raised in Orange City and attended the public school, graduating in 1948. He then enrolled at the Nettleton Business College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 1949, he began working in the Sioux County Treasurers Office until enlisting in the United States Army, serving two years stationed in Korea.

On June 15, 1954, he was united in marriage to Phyllis Jean Rohrs in Le Mars. The couple made their home in Orange City where “Stan” continued to work at the treasurer’s office until taking a position with the Sioux County Rural Electric Association in 1956. He was elected as Sioux County Treasurer in 1959, and remained in that position until 1972, when he became part of the Hubers-Van Engelenhoven Insurance Agency in Orange City. He retired from the insurance agency in 1998 and served one year as a councilman for the City of Orange City before being elected to the Sioux County Board of Supervisors in 1999. Starting in 2003, he also worked part-time as a salesperson for Family Memorials in Sioux Falls.

Mr. De Haan was a member of the American Reformed Church where he had served as both a deacon and an elder. He was very active in community and business organizations having been a member of the Orange City Chamber of Commerce, the Orange City Ambassadors, the Lions Club, served as chairman of the Tulip Festival Steering Committee, was Commander of the Pressman-Kosters American Legion Post, and in earlier years, was Vice President of the Iowa County Treasurers Association.

He enjoyed collecting coins and was an avid fan of the Northwestern College Red Raiders basketball and football teams and the Iowa Hawkeyes. Stan loved spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Survivors include his wife of more than 66 years, “Phyl”, of Orange City; a son, Dr. Jeffrey De Haan, and his wife, Jayme, of Texarkana, Texas; a daughter, Cindy, and her husband, Harley Broek, of Arnolds Park; four granddaughters, Heather, and her husband, Paul Rabara; Jennifer, and her husband, Ojan Jay Karimi; Brittany, and her husband Brent Bunch; and Karlee De Haan; four great-grandchildren, Reid and Ben Rabara, and Dylan and Kennedy Karimi; a brother-in-law and his wife, Robert and Beverly Rohrs, of Orange City; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by four siblings and their spouses, Ruth and Arie Drost; Albert and Jenny De Haan; Betty and Howard Nitz; and Wallace and Carolyn De Haan.

Memorials may be directed to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.