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November 26, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, November 29, 2012 from 6-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 AM on Friday, November 30, 2012 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
Hendrik Cornelius Rijkse age 82 of Wyckoff, formerly of Wayne, died Monday, November 27, 2012 at home.
He was born in Bilthoven, Netherlands and came to this country of May 15, 1956 settling in Maple Shade New Jersey and lived with the family of Hank Groot who had been Hank’s best friend in Holland. He worked seven days a week as a baker at a local diner. Within a few months Hank returned to Holland to get married but his fiancé didn’t want to come back to the United States with him. He proceeded to walk out the door of her house and never saw her again. He returned to the United States and again lived with the Groot family He met his future wife Marilyn Jaasma through friends and their first date was to a drive-in movie. When Hank dropped her off at home he was very impressed by how neat and clean her family home was. A short while later they went on a second date and after just one month from their first date Hank asked Marilyn to marry him in her backyard. They were married one month later on October 10, 1959 at the Second Reformed Church in Little Falls by Reverend Lendrink. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls and throughout New England. After they were married they settled in a home on Haines Place in Singac where they lived for eight years. Hank worked for the Motorolla Corporation as a Field Engineer for radioactive instrumentation from 1967 through 1982 when he retired. In 1967 they moved to Giannone Road in Wayne where they lived before moving to the Christian Health Care Center in Wyckoff.
Hank was very devoted to his Christian faith and was a member of the Second Reformed Church in Little Falls from 1958 through 1987 where he served as Head of Deacons for many years. He later was a member of the Preakness Valley United Reformed Church in Wayne where he was proud to have help with the video set-up for broadcasting church services through cable television.
Hank was the loving husband of fifty-three years to Marilyn Rijkse (nee Jaasma); loving father of Donna Lee Veenstra and her husband Gerald of North Haledon, Lisa Ann Dykstra and her husband Donald of North Haledon; dear brother of Wim Rijkse of New Zealand; grandfather of Andrew, Allison, and Adam Dykstra, Alyssa, Kelsey, Brianne, and Jenna Veenstra; brother-in-law of Ed and Dot Jaasma of Colts Neck.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Christian Health Care Center, 301 Sicomac Ave., Wyckoff, NJ 07481 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, November 29, 2012 from 6-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 AM on Friday, November 30, 2012 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
November 26, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, November 29, 2012 from 6-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 AM on Friday, November 30, 2012 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
Hendrik Cornelius Rijkse age 82 of Wyckoff, formerly of Wayne, died Monday, November 27, 2012 at home.
He was born in Bilthoven, Netherlands and came to this country of May 15, 1956 settling in Maple Shade New Jersey and lived with the family of Hank Groot who had been Hank’s best friend in Holland. He worked seven days a week as a baker at a local diner. Within a few months Hank returned to Holland to get married but his fiancé didn’t want to come back to the United States with him. He proceeded to walk out the door of her house and never saw her again. He returned to the United States and again lived with the Groot family He met his future wife Marilyn Jaasma through friends and their first date was to a drive-in movie. When Hank dropped her off at home he was very impressed by how neat and clean her family home was. A short while later they went on a second date and after just one month from their first date Hank asked Marilyn to marry him in her backyard. They were married one month later on October 10, 1959 at the Second Reformed Church in Little Falls by Reverend Lendrink. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls and throughout New England. After they were married they settled in a home on Haines Place in Singac where they lived for eight years. Hank worked for the Motorolla Corporation as a Field Engineer for radioactive instrumentation from 1967 through 1982 when he retired. In 1967 they moved to Giannone Road in Wayne where they lived before moving to the Christian Health Care Center in Wyckoff.
Hank was very devoted to his Christian faith and was a member of the Second Reformed Church in Little Falls from 1958 through 1987 where he served as Head of Deacons for many years. He later was a member of the Preakness Valley United Reformed Church in Wayne where he was proud to have help with the video set-up for broadcasting church services through cable television.
Hank was the loving husband of fifty-three years to Marilyn Rijkse (nee Jaasma); loving father of Donna Lee Veenstra and her husband Gerald of North Haledon, Lisa Ann Dykstra and her husband Donald of North Haledon; dear brother of Wim Rijkse of New Zealand; grandfather of Andrew, Allison, and Adam Dykstra, Alyssa, Kelsey, Brianne, and Jenna Veenstra; brother-in-law of Ed and Dot Jaasma of Colts Neck.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Christian Health Care Center, 301 Sicomac Ave., Wyckoff, NJ 07481 would be appreciated.
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