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September 15, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 9 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
She will be laid to rest with her husband Rensel at the Fair Lawn Cemetery in Fair Lawn.
Bloomingdale Mayor William Steenstra’s Mother
Tanetta “Nettie” Steenstra age 93 of Bloomingdale, died Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at the Bloomingdale Health Care Center in Bloomingdale. Her passing was quiet and peaceful with her loving family at her side.
She was born in Paterson and had lived in Wayne and Butler before moving to Bloomingdale five years ago.
Nettie received her formal education at Paterson Central High School graduating with the Class of 1938.
Mrs. Steenstra was a Receptionist for Vicon Construction Company in Butler for ten years before her retirement.
She was a member of the Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church in Pompton Plains.
She was gifted with a motherly humanity coupled with and intense concern for the hearts and souls of her children and grandchildren.
Tanetta and Rensel Steenstra were married in 1941 and had a “Devoted and Loving Marriage”, “like two peas in a pod” together for fifty two years before his passing in 1993.
Surviving are one son William Steenstra and his wife Sandra of Bloomingdale; one daughter Janyce Surpless and her husband William of Bloomingdale; six Grandchildren Rhonda Calvert, William Steenstra, Erik, Megan, Sarah and Emily Surpless; five Great Grandchildren Nicholas, Erica and Lucas Steenstra, Brandon and Amanda Calvert.
Those planning an expression of sympathy, in Nettie’s memory, are asked to consider the Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church, 415 Boulevard, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 or the Compassionate Care Hospice, 2100 Route 208 South, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 9 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
She will be laid to rest with her husband Rensel at the Fair Lawn Cemetery in Fair Lawn.
September 15, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 9 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
She will be laid to rest with her husband Rensel at the Fair Lawn Cemetery in Fair Lawn.
Bloomingdale Mayor William Steenstra’s Mother
Tanetta “Nettie” Steenstra age 93 of Bloomingdale, died Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at the Bloomingdale Health Care Center in Bloomingdale. Her passing was quiet and peaceful with her loving family at her side.
She was born in Paterson and had lived in Wayne and Butler before moving to Bloomingdale five years ago.
Nettie received her formal education at Paterson Central High School graduating with the Class of 1938.
Mrs. Steenstra was a Receptionist for Vicon Construction Company in Butler for ten years before her retirement.
She was a member of the Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church in Pompton Plains.
She was gifted with a motherly humanity coupled with and intense concern for the hearts and souls of her children and grandchildren.
Tanetta and Rensel Steenstra were married in 1941 and had a “Devoted and Loving Marriage”, “like two peas in a pod” together for fifty two years before his passing in 1993.
Surviving are one son William Steenstra and his wife Sandra of Bloomingdale; one daughter Janyce Surpless and her husband William of Bloomingdale; six Grandchildren Rhonda Calvert, William Steenstra, Erik, Megan, Sarah and Emily Surpless; five Great Grandchildren Nicholas, Erica and Lucas Steenstra, Brandon and Amanda Calvert.
Those planning an expression of sympathy, in Nettie’s memory, are asked to consider the Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church, 415 Boulevard, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 or the Compassionate Care Hospice, 2100 Route 208 South, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410.
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