Charlevoix County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Veenstra, Minert (Military Tombstone) 
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Cemetery:           Brookside Cemetery
Name:               Minert (Military Tombstone) Veenstra

Date Of Photograph: June 5, 2015
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Minert Veenstra
SGT  US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
Jan 21, 1919 - Apr 8, 2008

Minert (Mike) Veenstra was born January 21, 1919 in Atwood, the son of John and
Minnie Veenstra.
Minert married Rachel Jean Whitley in 1935 at Charlevoix, Michigan.




Additional Comments:

OBITUARY
Courtesy Charlevoix Library
Charlevoix Courier

Minert "Mike" Veenstra: 
Jan. 21, 1919 - April 8, 2008

Minert "Mike" Veenstra, 89, resident of Charlevoix, passed away on April 8 at
Sunnybank in Charlevoix.

Funeral services were held April 11 at the Charlevoix Community Church of God.

Visitation was from 6 to 8 p.m. on April 10 at the Winchester Funeral Home in
Charlevoix.

The Reverends Neil Turner of Community Church of God and Chip Sauer of the
Community Reformed Church officiated.

Burial followed the service at Brookside Cemetery.
Mike was born on January 21,1919 in Atwood to John and Minnie Veenstra. He
married Rachel Whitley of Charlevoix in 1935. The couple lived in Charlevoix and
later Ellsworth for a time and back to Charlevoix in 1962.

Mike served as a Sergeant in the US Army from 1944 through 1946. He was a farmer
and retired as a mechanic from Medusa Cement after 18 years of employment

He was a member of Community Church of God, serving in the past as board member,
Sunday School teacher, actively caring for the Church of God Campground and
through all the years was a greeter at Sunday morning services.

Mike enjoyed hunting, fishing, gardening and his many grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by Rachel, his wife of 66 years in 2001.

Survivors include two sons, Minert "Mick" and Kathy of South Lyon, Allen and
Nancy of Jonesville, and one daughter Myrna and Ken Boss of Charlevoix. He
cherished and loved his seven grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. He is
survived by one sister, Johanna Doctor of Ellsworth.

He was preceded in death by two sisters, Gezina Aardema and Christine DeVries
and one brother, John Tornga.

Memorials are suggested to be sent to Charlevoix Area Hospital or Church of God
Campground.

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