Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Vanhetloo, Geraldine L. 2005
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, December 9, 2005
Geraldine L. (Case) Vanhetloo, 81, of Holland, went to be with her Lord on 
Friday, December 2, 2005, at a local care facility.

She was born in Ionia, served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during 
W.W.II. Gerry was office manager of Fennville Lumber Company for her first 
husband, John Case. She later worked for High Q Industries in Fennville, then 
for Dr. Kenneth Kratzer. After the death of John Case in 1973, she married Dr. 
Warren Vanhetloo in 1977 and moved to Pennsylvania. There, she volunteered in 
the Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary library and office. In 1998, the 
Vanhetloos returned to Michigan, living in Holland. Gerry was a member of 
First Baptist Church of Zeeland.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, John E. Case, granddaughter 
Kara Smiertka, and sisters Jessie Martin and Margaret Westbrook. She is 
survived by her husband, Dr. Warren Vanhetloo; daughters Sharon and Hil 
Sybesma of Valley Center, CA, Trude and Steve Brower of Holland, Lindsey and 
Dennis Smiertka of Allegan, and Shelley and Scott MacGirr of Grand Haven; 10 
grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren; sister Evelyn Waters and brother-in-
law Thomas Westbrook, both of Ionia,

Services were 11 a.m. Tuesday at Chappell Funeral Home, 637 W. Main, 
Fennville, with the Rev. Raymond Mayhew officiating. Memorials may be made to 
the Haven Park Christian Nursing Home, Zeeland, or Calvary Baptist Theological 
Seminary, 1380 S. Valley Forge Road, Lansdale, PA.


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