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August 21, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, August 26, 2011 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery.
Thomas Ackershoek, age 85, of Ortley Beach NJ and Barefoot Bay Fl, died August 21, 2011 in NJ.
He was born in Paterson NJ. Tom is survived by his sister Matilda (Til) Dunning and brother Tunis, sister-in-laws Irma and Margaret and many nieces, nephews and great and great great nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents Nellie and Tunis Ackershoek and brothers and sisters, Len, Kryn, Nick, Ed, Trina and Margaret and his lifelong friend, Anita LeenHeer.
Tom Ackershoek attended Paterson Public Schools and William Paterson and Montclair State University. He was a principal of School 6 and Martin Luther King School in Paterson NJ. He retired to Ortley Beach after his successful career. He traveled between NJ and Florida for many great days at the beach.
Ackershoek served our country in the Philippines in World War II. He returned there in 2005 with the members of the GI Gospel Hour. He met yearly with the GI Gospel Veterans who continue to support the seminary they began in the Philippines in WWII. Last September, Tom attended the 65th Anniversary reunion in Detroit MI with SEND International.
Ackershoek has been battling cancer since 2006 and is thankful for the care he received from his niece Lois Neun in Florida. He recently was on a clinical trial program at MD Anderson Hospital for Mantel Cell Lymphoma in Orlando.
Tom loved the Lord and was a member of People’s Park Reformed Church in Paterson NJ and attended the Union Church of Lavallette in NJ and Calvary Church in FL. since his retirement. He left Florida this July and traveled to Michigan and Ortley Beach to sit on the deck of his shore house and to visit friends. He loved the ocean and he loved life. He enjoyed visiting his family and was in North Jersey at Chilton Hospital when he died.
He will be remembered by all his friends and family because he loved us all and we all loved him.
In lieu of flowers donations be made to the SEND Intl., PO Box 513, Farmington, MI 48332 please be sure to include Thomas Ackershoek Memorial Donation/GI in the memo of your check.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, August 26, 2011 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery.
August 21, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, August 26, 2011 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery.
Thomas Ackershoek, age 85, of Ortley Beach NJ and Barefoot Bay Fl, died August 21, 2011 in NJ.
He was born in Paterson NJ. Tom is survived by his sister Matilda (Til) Dunning and brother Tunis, sister-in-laws Irma and Margaret and many nieces, nephews and great and great great nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents Nellie and Tunis Ackershoek and brothers and sisters, Len, Kryn, Nick, Ed, Trina and Margaret and his lifelong friend, Anita LeenHeer.
Tom Ackershoek attended Paterson Public Schools and William Paterson and Montclair State University. He was a principal of School 6 and Martin Luther King School in Paterson NJ. He retired to Ortley Beach after his successful career. He traveled between NJ and Florida for many great days at the beach.
Ackershoek served our country in the Philippines in World War II. He returned there in 2005 with the members of the GI Gospel Hour. He met yearly with the GI Gospel Veterans who continue to support the seminary they began in the Philippines in WWII. Last September, Tom attended the 65th Anniversary reunion in Detroit MI with SEND International.
Ackershoek has been battling cancer since 2006 and is thankful for the care he received from his niece Lois Neun in Florida. He recently was on a clinical trial program at MD Anderson Hospital for Mantel Cell Lymphoma in Orlando.
Tom loved the Lord and was a member of People’s Park Reformed Church in Paterson NJ and attended the Union Church of Lavallette in NJ and Calvary Church in FL. since his retirement. He left Florida this July and traveled to Michigan and Ortley Beach to sit on the deck of his shore house and to visit friends. He loved the ocean and he loved life. He enjoyed visiting his family and was in North Jersey at Chilton Hospital when he died.
He will be remembered by all his friends and family because he loved us all and we all loved him.
In lieu of flowers donations be made to the SEND Intl., PO Box 513, Farmington, MI 48332 please be sure to include Thomas Ackershoek Memorial Donation/GI in the memo of your check.
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