Vermeer, Charlotte (Mrs. Kenneth Andrew) 1927-2023

VERMEER, DEBOER, MIERAS

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/26/2023 at 10:00:02

Mrs. Charlotte Vermeer, age 95, of Orange City, formerly of Sioux Center, passed away on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at the Prairie Ridge Care Center in Orange City.

A visitation with the family present will be held on Tuesday, May 2, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. A prayer service will take place on Wednesday, May 3, at 9:30am, at the funeral home, followed by interment at the Memory Gardens Cemetery in Sioux Center. There will be a memorial service on Wednesday, at 11:00am, at the First Reformed Church in Orange City with the Rev. Stephen Breen officiating.

Charlotte Cynthia was born on October 14, 1927, in Sioux Center, the first of four daughters born to John and Alice (De Boer) Mieras. When she was still a child, her family moved to Struble, where Charlotte grew up and went to school through the eighth grade. She attended the Le Mars High School for two years before her family returned to Sioux Center, where she worked with her parents at Southside Grocery and completed her education, graduating from the Sioux Center High School in 1945.

She was united in marriage to Andrew Kenneth Vermeer on May 25, 1948, at the First Reformed Church in Sioux Center. Together they made their home on a farm southeast of Sioux Center and were blessed with six children, Lee, Kathy, Beth, Cindy, Peggy, and Emily. Once all of their children were in school, Charlotte started working outside the home. In 1973, the family moved to a house in Sioux Center where Charlotte was employed at several businesses including the Young American Shoppe, Van’s Jewelry, Schalekamp Drug Store, Dollar General, and Mid-Sioux Opportunity. She enjoyed being able to interact with people and continued working well into her seventies. Andrew passed away on August 25, 1999, in Sioux Falls, after more than 51 years of marriage. In 2017, she became a resident of Crown Pointe Estates in Sioux Center. She later moved to the Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community in Orange City, and since February of last year she had been living at the Prairie Ridge Care Center.

Mrs. Vermeer was a lifelong member of the First Reformed Church in Sioux Center, where she was active in the Lydia Circle. Charlotte enjoyed sewing, and was an accomplished seamstress, making countless items for her children to wear. She and Andrew also enjoyed traveling throughout their married life, frequently taking their young family on summer vacations. Later in life, they were able to travel to almost all fifty states, and to several other countries.

She will be deeply missed by her son and his wife, Lee and Karla Vermeer, of Powell, Ohio; four daughters, Beth Kooiker, of Sioux Center; Cindy, and her husband, Les Cleveringa, of Alton; and Peggy, and her husband, Steve Mouw; and Emily, and her husband, Corey Kleinhesselink, all of Sioux Center; a son-in-law and his wife, John and Patricia Koerselman, of Sioux Center; twenty grandchildren, Craig (Stephanie) Vermeer, Todd (Andrea) Vermeer, Kerry Koerselman, Jill Suresh, Jeremy (Lisa) Koerselman, Kimberly (Ben) Gascoigne, Brett (Becky) Kooiker, Brian (Tessa) Kooiker, Sharla (Landon) Svennes, Braden (Elsa) Kooiker, Becca Kooiker, Chad (Amy) Cleveringa, Erin (Barry) Emmelkamp, Kyle (Emily) Cleveringa, Trevor (Jordan) Mouw, Tom Mouw, Levi (Mara) Mouw, Katherine (Shane) De Wit, Paden (Martha) Kleinhesselink, and Miles (Samantha Stark) Kleinhesselink; 45 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Marlene Den Herder, of Tucson, Arizona; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her husband’s parents, Richard E. and Katherine (Roos) Vermeer; a daughter, Kathleen Koerselman; a son-in-law, Daniel Kooiker; a great-granddaughter, Wrenlee Hope De Wit; two sisters, Margaret Elaine Mieras; and Betty, and her husband, Marvin De Groot; two brothers-in-law, Paul Den Herder, and Ed R. Vermeer, and his wife, Gertrude; and three sisters-in-law, Ellen Vermeer; Geneva Vermeer; and Estelle, and her husband, Floyd Achterhof.

Memorials will be given to The Awakening Grace Foundation in Orange City or the American Cancer Society.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.