ELSE ZANTINGE, WAS CALLED HOME TO HER LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE NOVEMBER 26, 1998 AT THE AGE OF 58 YEARS.
ELSE WAS BORN JANUARY 7, 1940 AT BANDUNG, INDONESIA ON THE ISLAND OF JAVA TO PIET AND MARIA ZYLEMAKER. SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT BANDUNG CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF TWELVE AT ARNHEN, HOLLAND. ELSE CAME TO CANADA TO ATTEND EXPO IN 1967. SHE MET HANK AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN MAY OF 1969 IN GUELPH, WHERE ELSE WORKED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH. TOGETHER THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH YOUTH WITH MISSION WHICH TOOK THEM TO MANY PLACES INCLUDING TACOMA, WASHINGTON, MEXICO, SAIPAN, HANOVER AND DEER LAKE IN NORTHEN ONTARIO. HANK TOOK A POSITION IN COWLEY, THEN TO VULCAN IN APRIL THIS YEAR WHERE THEY HAVE RESIDED SINCE.
ELSE ENJOYED MANY CRAFTS INCLUDING CERAMICS AND WREATH MAKING, SHE ALSO ENJOYED THE OUT DOORS, WALKING, HIKING, CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING, CANOEING AND READING. SHE VOLUNTEERED HER TIME WITH THE SENIORS HOME, LEADING A WORSHIP TEAM, SINGING IN CHOIR GROUPS AND HELPING HER HUSBAND CO-ORDINATION IN THE CHURCH.
LOVING WIFE OF REV. HANK ZANTINGE OF VULCAN, TWO DAUGHTERS RUTH-ANN (JASON) CLARK OF TERRACE, B.C. AND CHRISTINE ZANTINGE OF CALGARY, A SON THEO (TRACEY) OF PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO, HER MOTHER MARIA ZYLEMAKER O PURMEREND, NETHERLANDS AND GRANDDAUGHTER MACKENZIE CLARK.
ELSE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER FATHER PIET ZYLEMAKER IN 1993.
FUNERAL SERVICE TUESDAY DECEMBER 1, 1998 AT VULCAN EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH AT 1:30 P.M. WITH PASTOR JASON CLARK OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS WERE THEO ZANTINGE, LEWIS ANJEMA, JAKE VANDEBERG, BARRY SANDEMAN, ELDON ERICKSON AND DARRELL DESROSIERS.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, TRIBUTES IN ELSE’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO COMPASSION, 99 ENTERPRISE DRIVE SOUTH P.O. BOX 5591 LONDON, ONTARIO N6A 5G8, A MILLION AT RISK, HURRICANE MITCH.
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