Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Heyboer, Alyce (Banker) July 21, 2021
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Hasting's Reminder - Saturday July 24, 2021

ALYCE BANKER HEYBOER
Alyce Banker Heyboer, who touched hundreds of lives as a schoolteacher in 
Western Michigan, died July 21, 2021 at Green Acres Lowell. She was 91 and had 
been in declining health since late last years.

Although she lived some 60 years on a farm outside Lake Odessa, Mrs. Heyboer was 
adventurous, curious and engaged in the larger world. She was born on Nov. 24, 
1926, to Wesleyan Methodist missionaries near Bombay, India. Educated at a 
boarding school in the Himalayas, she crossed the Pacific on a troop ship during 
World War II as she headed to the U.S. for college.

Mrs.Heyboer graduated from Houghton College in upstate New York in 1945 and 
later earned her master's at Michigan State University. She married a Grand 
Rapids Dutchman, Alvin  Heyboer, in 1951. they lived in Grandville before moving 
several years later to the farm outside Lake Odessa.

Mrs. Heyboer was a first grade teacher in the Lake wood school system for 32 
years. She was an extraordinary teacher who created special traditions such as 
taking kids to the Dairy Queen on their birthdays. She was passionate about 
helping children become good readers, believing this would not only facilitate 
all the learning that was to come, but enrich them personally.

Mrs. Heyboer kept up with the news and politics, was active in church activities 
and was a big fan of the Detroit Tigers. She was a member of South Boston Bible 
Church in Lowell. She loved to travel and had been to Israel, Egypt and China, 
as well as back to India She was the heart of her family and lived her life with 
faith empathy, creativity and gratitude.

Her husband died of cancer in 1994.

Mrs. Heyboer is survived by a daughter, Linda H.Lamb of Columbia, S.C.; two 
sons, Joe and Mark Heyboer, both of Lake Odessa; two grandsons, Casey Lamb 
(Wendy) of Greenville, S.C., and Brady Lamb of Columbia, SC.; a great-grandson 
Logan Lamb of Greenville, S.C.; a sister and brother-in-law,Helen and Ivan 
Syswerda of Fremont; several nieces and nephews and a circle of friends.

Visitation will be held on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at Koops Funeral Chapel, 935 
4th Ave., Lake Odessa, Mi, 48849 from 11 a.m until time of funeral at 1 p.m. 
Burial will take place privately at Lakeside Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Lake Odessa Public Library. For a more detailed 
obituary, please see Koops Funeral Chapel.com

Additional Comments:
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