

Euclid Ave., Arlington Heights, IL 60004. Jon Mahtani will officiate at her interment services 3:00 pm (Central Time) MONDAY, JANUat Memory Gardens Cemetery, 2501 E. Visitation will be prior to the funeral service from 9-10 am Monday. She will also be missed by her church families with whom she was very close.Ī funeral service to honor the faith and life of Gertude Meerse will be held at 10:00 am (Eastern Time), MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015, at the Yntema Funeral Home, 251 S. She is survived by her sister, Jannie Ten Berge Van Den Akker, nieces Martha Hoekstra and Linda Vander Naald, other nieces and nephews, as well as her adopted son Jai Mahtani and his wife Esther. In West Michigan she was a member of First Protestant Reformed Church of Holland and then Hope Protestant Reformed Church.


Later Gertie moved with her close friends and family, the Jai Mahtani Family, to West Michigan. In 1993, William preceded Gertude in death. They were members of Bethel Protestant Reformed Church. William and Gertie eventually settled on the north side of Chicago in Wheeling, Illinois. 7:09 8 M 40-44 Michigan Awesome Triathlon Team Michigan Awesome Triathlon. She immigrated first to Canada and then the United States with her husband William Meerse after World War II. Gertie was born in the city of Bedum, Groningen, the Netherlands, August 7, 1924, to Derk and Seike (Bos) Ten Berge. Gertrude Meerse, 90, of Brookcrest Manor in Grandville, Michigan, formerly of Wheeling, Illinois, passed away on Sunday, January 4, 2015. *****PLEASE NOTE A CHANGE OF DATE FOR FUNERAL AND COMMITTAL SERVICES*****
