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October 25, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
Pieternella A. “Nellie” Kersten(nee Vander Endt) age 95 of Kinnelon died peacefully at the Chilton Memorial Hospital on Sunday, October 25, 2009, with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born in Yerseke, Netherlands where her family specialized in fishing for mussels; a trade extended family members are still engaged in to this day. She came to this country in 1949 settling in Prospect Park having lived in Long Valley, Chester, Oxford and Wayne before moving to Kinnelon fourteen years ago.
Nellie met the love of her life, Adrian Kersten in The Netherlands when he invited her to ice skate on the canals. They were married on August 24, 1938 by Adrian’s father the Rev. G.H. Kersten who was also a sitting member of the Parliament in The Netherlands at the time. They honeymooned in Switzerland and enjoyed fifty-three years of marriage before Adrian’s passing in 1991. During their years together they owned a grain drying business in Holland. In 1949 they moved to the United States having settled in Prospect Park and eventually purchased a dairy farm in Oxford, NJ. The dairy farm, although no longer in the family, is still in operation today.
Nellie was a quiet, gentle, sweet person who was always concerned about the well being of others. She enjoyed knitting, crocheting, sewing and loved to read. She could often be found reading sermons and other religious material and although she could read English, most of her reading was in Dutch. She was also an excellent cook in her day and enjoyed baking cookies for the family.
She was the beloved wife of the late Adrian Kersten(1991); loving mother of Annette Van Houten and her husband John of Kinnelon, the late Garret H. Kersten(1940), the late Garret Hendrick “Hank” Kersten(1983), and the late Abrahan Kersten(1995) and his surviving wife Marion (Kersten) Van Houten of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Karen Moore, Garry Kersten and his wife Lois, Matthew Kersten and his wife Tammy, Gary Kersten and his wife Rachael, and Gary Van Sweden and his wife Amy; devoted great grandmother of fourteen great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Netherlands Reformed Christian School, 164 Jacksonville Rd., Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
October 25, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
Pieternella A. “Nellie” Kersten(nee Vander Endt) age 95 of Kinnelon died peacefully at the Chilton Memorial Hospital on Sunday, October 25, 2009, with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born in Yerseke, Netherlands where her family specialized in fishing for mussels; a trade extended family members are still engaged in to this day. She came to this country in 1949 settling in Prospect Park having lived in Long Valley, Chester, Oxford and Wayne before moving to Kinnelon fourteen years ago.
Nellie met the love of her life, Adrian Kersten in The Netherlands when he invited her to ice skate on the canals. They were married on August 24, 1938 by Adrian’s father the Rev. G.H. Kersten who was also a sitting member of the Parliament in The Netherlands at the time. They honeymooned in Switzerland and enjoyed fifty-three years of marriage before Adrian’s passing in 1991. During their years together they owned a grain drying business in Holland. In 1949 they moved to the United States having settled in Prospect Park and eventually purchased a dairy farm in Oxford, NJ. The dairy farm, although no longer in the family, is still in operation today.
Nellie was a quiet, gentle, sweet person who was always concerned about the well being of others. She enjoyed knitting, crocheting, sewing and loved to read. She could often be found reading sermons and other religious material and although she could read English, most of her reading was in Dutch. She was also an excellent cook in her day and enjoyed baking cookies for the family.
She was the beloved wife of the late Adrian Kersten(1991); loving mother of Annette Van Houten and her husband John of Kinnelon, the late Garret H. Kersten(1940), the late Garret Hendrick “Hank” Kersten(1983), and the late Abrahan Kersten(1995) and his surviving wife Marion (Kersten) Van Houten of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Karen Moore, Garry Kersten and his wife Lois, Matthew Kersten and his wife Tammy, Gary Kersten and his wife Rachael, and Gary Van Sweden and his wife Amy; devoted great grandmother of fourteen great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Netherlands Reformed Christian School, 164 Jacksonville Rd., Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 would be appreciated.
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