Jeanettea Vanwaardhuizen

Jeanettea M. VanWaardhuizen, formerly of Beaman/Conrad, passed from this life on the morning of Sunday, March 13th, at Daves Place Nursing Home in Keokuk, Iowa, at the age of 84. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 17th, at the Mitchell Family Funeral Home with Pastor Loren Strait of the Central Christian Church officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the services. Memorials may be directed to her family. For condolences, please visit www.mitchellfh.com. Ph. 641-844-1234. Born Jeanettea Harsselaar on June 27th, 1931, in Grinnell, Iowa, she was the daughter of Albertus Bert H. and Jennie (DeKoening) Harsselaar. She attended school in the area of her birth. Jeanettea was united in marriage to Alvin Dean VanWaardhuizen, and even though their marriage parted, they were blessed with three children. She enjoyed playing the piano, crocheting and embroidering. She resided in the Conrad-Beaman communities and was a member of the Wellsburg Christian Reformed Church. Left to cherish her memory are her three children- Shirley George of Marshalltown, Judy (Calvin) Dewey of Marshall, Arkansas, and Melvin (Betty) VanWaardhuizen of Marshalltown; seven grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren as well as her sister Elizabeth (Gerald) VanHemert of Sully, Iowa and many nieces and nephews. In death, Jeanettea rejoined her parents, two brothers- Aart and Albertus and two sisters- Cornelia Harsselaar and Johanna VanWyk and a great granddaughter, Makayla Levis.