Ionia-Barry County MI Archives Obituaries.....Duits, Jacob June 3, 1985
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, June 5, 1985
Jacob Duits, 75, of Lake Odessa, formerly of Woodland, died Monday at the  
Provincial House in Hastings.  Born January 10, 1910, in The Netherlands, he 
was the son of Bartholomew and Johanna Kofelman Duits.  He moved to Sioux 
Center, Iowa, with his parents at the age of six and went to school there.  He 
married Jenny Van Roekel in Canton, South Dakota, June 13, 1918.  They moved 
to Woodland after their marriage and lived there until 1979 when they moved to 
Lake Odessa.

Surviving are four sons, Robert  of Portland, Donald of Amado, Arizona, and 
Wayne and Kenneth of Woodland; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Ross Gibbs of Hale; 
two brothers, Bert of Sioux Center, Iowa, and Pete of Rock Valley, Iowa; three 
sisters, Johanna Dykema, Lyda Kalkman and Louise Breive, all of Holland; 24 
grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren and six step-grandchildren.  A son, 
Gordon, a sister, Anne, and a brother, Dick, preceded him in death.  He was a 
member of the Zion Lutheran Church of Woodland.

Funeral services will be Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at the Koops Funeral Chapel, 
Lake Odessa.  Burial will be in Woodland Memorial Gardens.  The family will be 
at the funeral chapel between 2 and 4 p.m. and 7 and 9 p.m. on Wednesday.



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