Funeral services for Jacob Bakker, 71, Hills, were held Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1:30 p.m., in the Steen Reformed Church with Rev. Roger Punt and Rev. Timothy Vink officiating. Interment was in the Eastside Cemetery, Steen. Graveside military honors were by members of the American Legion Post No. 399 of Hills.
Music was provide by Carol Hoogeveen, organist. The Country Chords Gospel Quartet sang Life's Railway To Heaven and Amazing Grace. The congregation sang O That Will Be Glory For Me and How Great Thou Art.
Casket bearers were Peter A. Walhof, Frank Vander Woude, Michael Drooger, Darcy Van Gorp, Harlan Van Maanen, and Virgil Bakker.
Jacob Jake Bakker was born January 22, 1922, at Edgerton, the son of Abel and Rena (Vander Pol) Bakker. Jack grew up and attended country school near Edgerton.
During World War II Jake served his country in the Merchant Marines as a fireman in the boiler room on the ship where he was stationed.
On February 26, 1953, Jack was united in marriage to Margaret Van Maanen at the Steen Reformed Church in Steen. Following their marriage Jake and Margaret lived in Hills. For 40 years Jack has worked for the Hills-Beaver Creek School, where he was a custodian and bus driver. Even though he had decreased his work load, he was still driving bus for the school.
Jack was a member of the Steen Reformed Church, and the American Legion in Hills.
He has a special love of children and especially his own grandchildren. Jake also loved to travel, was a great visitor, and always had a hearty laugh with a big smile for those he was visiting with.
Last Friday, Dec. 24, Jake died unexpectedly at the Luverne Community Hospital in Luverne, after a sudden illness at home. At the time of his death he was 71.
Surviving is his wife of 40 years, Margaret of Hills; his two daughters, Saralee Erraqui and her husband, Mohamed of Luverne, and Marla Kjellsen and her husband Jeffrey of Cape Cod, Mass.; and his two grandchildren, Monica and Shawn Baartman. Also surviving are his three sisters, Ann Walhof and Gertrude Vander Woude and her husband Paul, all of Edgerton, and Johanna Mesman and her husband Gerard of Bellflower, Calif., along with hid five step-sisters, Esther Schelhaas of Rock Valley, Iowa, Julie Mulder of Sioux Center, Iowa, Samona Gilman and Liz Vander Beek, both of Edgerton, and Lorraine Vande Burgh of Redlands, Calif.; and a sister-in-law, Annie Bakker of Bellflower.
Preceding Jake in death were his parents, two sisters, Jennie Baker and Jessie Kooiman, and a brother, Edzer Bakker.
Edgerton Enterprise, Dec 1993
Music was provide by Carol Hoogeveen, organist. The Country Chords Gospel Quartet sang Life's Railway To Heaven and Amazing Grace. The congregation sang O That Will Be Glory For Me and How Great Thou Art.
Casket bearers were Peter A. Walhof, Frank Vander Woude, Michael Drooger, Darcy Van Gorp, Harlan Van Maanen, and Virgil Bakker.
Jacob Jake Bakker was born January 22, 1922, at Edgerton, the son of Abel and Rena (Vander Pol) Bakker. Jack grew up and attended country school near Edgerton.
During World War II Jake served his country in the Merchant Marines as a fireman in the boiler room on the ship where he was stationed.
On February 26, 1953, Jack was united in marriage to Margaret Van Maanen at the Steen Reformed Church in Steen. Following their marriage Jake and Margaret lived in Hills. For 40 years Jack has worked for the Hills-Beaver Creek School, where he was a custodian and bus driver. Even though he had decreased his work load, he was still driving bus for the school.
Jack was a member of the Steen Reformed Church, and the American Legion in Hills.
He has a special love of children and especially his own grandchildren. Jake also loved to travel, was a great visitor, and always had a hearty laugh with a big smile for those he was visiting with.
Last Friday, Dec. 24, Jake died unexpectedly at the Luverne Community Hospital in Luverne, after a sudden illness at home. At the time of his death he was 71.
Surviving is his wife of 40 years, Margaret of Hills; his two daughters, Saralee Erraqui and her husband, Mohamed of Luverne, and Marla Kjellsen and her husband Jeffrey of Cape Cod, Mass.; and his two grandchildren, Monica and Shawn Baartman. Also surviving are his three sisters, Ann Walhof and Gertrude Vander Woude and her husband Paul, all of Edgerton, and Johanna Mesman and her husband Gerard of Bellflower, Calif., along with hid five step-sisters, Esther Schelhaas of Rock Valley, Iowa, Julie Mulder of Sioux Center, Iowa, Samona Gilman and Liz Vander Beek, both of Edgerton, and Lorraine Vande Burgh of Redlands, Calif.; and a sister-in-law, Annie Bakker of Bellflower.
Preceding Jake in death were his parents, two sisters, Jennie Baker and Jessie Kooiman, and a brother, Edzer Bakker.
Edgerton Enterprise, Dec 1993
Funeral services for Jacob Bakker, 71, Hills, were held Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1:30 p.m., in the Steen Reformed Church with Rev. Roger Punt and Rev. Timothy Vink officiating. Interment was in the Eastside Cemetery, Steen. Graveside military honors were by members of the American Legion Post No. 399 of Hills.
Music was provide by Carol Hoogeveen, organist. The Country Chords Gospel Quartet sang Life's Railway To Heaven and Amazing Grace. The congregation sang O That Will Be Glory For Me and How Great Thou Art.
Casket bearers were Peter A. Walhof, Frank Vander Woude, Michael Drooger, Darcy Van Gorp, Harlan Van Maanen, and Virgil Bakker.
Jacob Jake Bakker was born January 22, 1922, at Edgerton, the son of Abel and Rena (Vander Pol) Bakker. Jack grew up and attended country school near Edgerton.
During World War II Jake served his country in the Merchant Marines as a fireman in the boiler room on the ship where he was stationed.
On February 26, 1953, Jack was united in marriage to Margaret Van Maanen at the Steen Reformed Church in Steen. Following their marriage Jake and Margaret lived in Hills. For 40 years Jack has worked for the Hills-Beaver Creek School, where he was a custodian and bus driver. Even though he had decreased his work load, he was still driving bus for the school.
Jack was a member of the Steen Reformed Church, and the American Legion in Hills.
He has a special love of children and especially his own grandchildren. Jake also loved to travel, was a great visitor, and always had a hearty laugh with a big smile for those he was visiting with.
Last Friday, Dec. 24, Jake died unexpectedly at the Luverne Community Hospital in Luverne, after a sudden illness at home. At the time of his death he was 71.
Surviving is his wife of 40 years, Margaret of Hills; his two daughters, Saralee Erraqui and her husband, Mohamed of Luverne, and Marla Kjellsen and her husband Jeffrey of Cape Cod, Mass.; and his two grandchildren, Monica and Shawn Baartman. Also surviving are his three sisters, Ann Walhof and Gertrude Vander Woude and her husband Paul, all of Edgerton, and Johanna Mesman and her husband Gerard of Bellflower, Calif., along with hid five step-sisters, Esther Schelhaas of Rock Valley, Iowa, Julie Mulder of Sioux Center, Iowa, Samona Gilman and Liz Vander Beek, both of Edgerton, and Lorraine Vande Burgh of Redlands, Calif.; and a sister-in-law, Annie Bakker of Bellflower.
Preceding Jake in death were his parents, two sisters, Jennie Baker and Jessie Kooiman, and a brother, Edzer Bakker.
Edgerton Enterprise, Dec 1993
Music was provide by Carol Hoogeveen, organist. The Country Chords Gospel Quartet sang Life's Railway To Heaven and Amazing Grace. The congregation sang O That Will Be Glory For Me and How Great Thou Art.
Casket bearers were Peter A. Walhof, Frank Vander Woude, Michael Drooger, Darcy Van Gorp, Harlan Van Maanen, and Virgil Bakker.
Jacob Jake Bakker was born January 22, 1922, at Edgerton, the son of Abel and Rena (Vander Pol) Bakker. Jack grew up and attended country school near Edgerton.
During World War II Jake served his country in the Merchant Marines as a fireman in the boiler room on the ship where he was stationed.
On February 26, 1953, Jack was united in marriage to Margaret Van Maanen at the Steen Reformed Church in Steen. Following their marriage Jake and Margaret lived in Hills. For 40 years Jack has worked for the Hills-Beaver Creek School, where he was a custodian and bus driver. Even though he had decreased his work load, he was still driving bus for the school.
Jack was a member of the Steen Reformed Church, and the American Legion in Hills.
He has a special love of children and especially his own grandchildren. Jake also loved to travel, was a great visitor, and always had a hearty laugh with a big smile for those he was visiting with.
Last Friday, Dec. 24, Jake died unexpectedly at the Luverne Community Hospital in Luverne, after a sudden illness at home. At the time of his death he was 71.
Surviving is his wife of 40 years, Margaret of Hills; his two daughters, Saralee Erraqui and her husband, Mohamed of Luverne, and Marla Kjellsen and her husband Jeffrey of Cape Cod, Mass.; and his two grandchildren, Monica and Shawn Baartman. Also surviving are his three sisters, Ann Walhof and Gertrude Vander Woude and her husband Paul, all of Edgerton, and Johanna Mesman and her husband Gerard of Bellflower, Calif., along with hid five step-sisters, Esther Schelhaas of Rock Valley, Iowa, Julie Mulder of Sioux Center, Iowa, Samona Gilman and Liz Vander Beek, both of Edgerton, and Lorraine Vande Burgh of Redlands, Calif.; and a sister-in-law, Annie Bakker of Bellflower.
Preceding Jake in death were his parents, two sisters, Jennie Baker and Jessie Kooiman, and a brother, Edzer Bakker.
Edgerton Enterprise, Dec 1993
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