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November 13, 2007
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, November 16, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at the Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Congregation, 875 Ewing Ave., Franklin Lakes.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
Gertrude(Geertruida) Willekes (nee den Hoed) age 101 died peacefully on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
She was born in Ridderkerk, Netherlands and emigrated to this country in 1953 settling in Paterson, having lived on Schooleys Mountain, Hackettstown, Wayne for many years and Pequannock for over twenty years.
They were the first family to receive compensation, from the Dutch government, for leaving the country as a result of over-population. They agreed to move as the economy was poor, there was a real fear of war just after WWII and because of land shortages. They came here with very little money, and seven children. An auto mechanic by trade, her late husband Charles J. Willekes(1990), was employed for over thirty years for Brogan Cadillac, Paterson.
Gertrude was a member of the Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Congregation, Franklin Lakes.
Beloved wife of fifty-seven years to the late Charles J. Willekes(1990); loving mother of Lourens J. Willekes and his wife Marie(nee Van Der Waal) of Grand Rapids, MI, John J. Willekes and his wife Johanna (nee den Hollander) of Pequannock, Anna Warmenhoven and her husband Paul of Sunnyside, WA, Jacobus J. Willekes and his wife Margaret (nee Kievit) of Newfoundland, Wilhelmina A. Hook and her husband Wayne of Pequannock, Cecilia Sweetman and her husband Barney of Fairfield and Rozetta Heerschap and her late husband William of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada; cherished grandmother of thirty-three grandchildren, eighty-nine great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Netherlands Christian Reformed School, 164 Jacksonville Rd., Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, November 16, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at the Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Congregation, 875 Ewing Ave., Franklin Lakes.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
November 13, 2007
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, November 16, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at the Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Congregation, 875 Ewing Ave., Franklin Lakes.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
Gertrude(Geertruida) Willekes (nee den Hoed) age 101 died peacefully on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
She was born in Ridderkerk, Netherlands and emigrated to this country in 1953 settling in Paterson, having lived on Schooleys Mountain, Hackettstown, Wayne for many years and Pequannock for over twenty years.
They were the first family to receive compensation, from the Dutch government, for leaving the country as a result of over-population. They agreed to move as the economy was poor, there was a real fear of war just after WWII and because of land shortages. They came here with very little money, and seven children. An auto mechanic by trade, her late husband Charles J. Willekes(1990), was employed for over thirty years for Brogan Cadillac, Paterson.
Gertrude was a member of the Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Congregation, Franklin Lakes.
Beloved wife of fifty-seven years to the late Charles J. Willekes(1990); loving mother of Lourens J. Willekes and his wife Marie(nee Van Der Waal) of Grand Rapids, MI, John J. Willekes and his wife Johanna (nee den Hollander) of Pequannock, Anna Warmenhoven and her husband Paul of Sunnyside, WA, Jacobus J. Willekes and his wife Margaret (nee Kievit) of Newfoundland, Wilhelmina A. Hook and her husband Wayne of Pequannock, Cecilia Sweetman and her husband Barney of Fairfield and Rozetta Heerschap and her late husband William of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada; cherished grandmother of thirty-three grandchildren, eighty-nine great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Netherlands Christian Reformed School, 164 Jacksonville Rd., Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 would be appreciated.
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