Obit for VAN REULDER, Jennie (MORET) (b.1912 d.2005), Murray Co., MN

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Jennie Van Reulder was born March 8, 1912, to William and Susan (Kallemeyn) 

Moret in Leota, Minnesota. She was baptized and confessed her faith in the 

Chandler Reformed Church and attended Country School District #57. As a 

young woman, she worked as a housekeeper for several neighbors and later 

went to a Minneapolis beauty school for one year. She returned to Southwest 

Minnesota and worked as a beautician’s apprentice in Luverne, Minnesota. 

On March 9, 1937, Jennie married Gerald Van Reulder at her parents home 

in Chandler, Minnesota,where they made their home. In the late 1930s Jennie 

opened “Jennie Wren’s”, a beauty shop in Chandler, which she owned and 

operated for many years. In 1942, they moved to a farm outside of Chandler 

and in 1963, they moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. While in Minneapolis, 

Jennie worked as a nurse’s aide, a med nurse and cared for several 

individuals privately in their homes. In 1976, after retiring, they moved 

back to Chandler. Jennie was always known as a caring individual taking 

care of many in their own homes as well as caring for her daughter through 

her terminal illness. She was a member of the Chandler Reformed church, 

where she taught Sunday school for many years, as well as active in the 

church building committee and ladies aid. Jennie was also active in the 

Senior Citizen’s Center and enjoyed sewing, knitting, crocheting, and 

crafts. After her husband’s death she enjoyed traveling with friends, 

including a trip to Europe and wintering in Arizona for 17 years. In 

November of 2002, she became a resident of Pipestone Good Samaritan Home 

in Pipestone, Minnesota and in September of 2005, she moved to the 

Edgebrook Care Center in Edgerton, Minnesota where she died Sunday, 

October 9, 2005, at the age of 93. 



Jennie is survived by her three daughters: Jennet Mollema, Chandler, MN; 

Marilyn Walhof, New Brighton, MN; and Conni Parrish, El Segunda, CA; six 

grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two sisters: Sophia Sorenson, 

Dana Point, CA and Adrianna Wagley, Luverne, MN; two brothers: John W. 

(Dorothy) Moret, Slaughters, KY and John P. (Francis) Moret, Jeffers, 

MN; one sister-in-law, Evelyn Moret, Slayton, MN; special friends Arlene 

Post and Marie Van Dam, both of Chandler, MN; many nieces, nephews and 

cousins. Her parents; husband Gerald; one daughter Susan Pronk, one

brother Martin and two sisters, Cornelia Mollema and Margaret Roelofs 

preceded her in death. 



Funeral services were held on Thursday, October 13, 2005, at 10:30 a.m. 

at Chandler Reformed Church, Chandler, MN with Rev. Gary Mulder 

officiating. Organist was Charlene Prins. Soloist was Marilyn Jasper. 

Congregational songs included: “My Faith Looks Up To Thee”, and “When 

The Roll Is Called Up Yonder”. Casketbearers were Jeff Arends, Jon 

Mollema, William Fischer, Paul Varhol, Steve Franke, and Matthew Fischer. 

Interment in Chandler Memorial Cemetery, Chandler, MN. Arrangements by 

Chandler Funeral Association, Chandler, MN.

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