Jager, Jeanette Hermina (Mrs. Harold) 1937-2021

JAGER, VANTHUL, VANMAANEN, MARS

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:34

Mrs. Jeanette Jager, age 83, of Orange City, passed away on Sunday, January 10, 2021, at the Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center.

There will be a private funeral service on Wednesday, January 13, at 2:00 pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. The Rev. Mark Vande Zande will officiate. Interment will follow the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City.

Jeanette Hermina was born on March 30, 1937, in Rock Valley, the daughter of Bert and Jessie (Van’t Hul) Van Maanen. She was raised in Rock Valley and attended Western Christian High School in Hull through the ninth grade.

On June 8, 1955, she was united in marriage to Lige G. Mars, in Sioux Center. They made their home in Orange City, where they raised their three children. She worked in various food service positions but valued her time more as a hospital aide and volunteering for local nursing homes and hospice. With her natural gift of caring for others, Jeanette’s greatest joy was becoming a grandmother and great-grandmother, loving each with the most considerable and unconditional love. Lige passed away in Orange City on September 30, 1975, after more than twenty years of marriage.

Jeanette married Harold Jager on March 30, 1984, in Orange City, and they made their home on a farm near Hawarden. Jeanette enjoyed being back on a farm and pitched right in as Harold’s partner in farming until they retired and moved into town. She again showed her selflessness by caring for Harold through his Parkinson’s journey until he passed away on July 9, 2010, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, after more than twenty-six years of marriage. Following Harold’s passing, Jeanette returned to Orange City, and in March of 2015, she became a resident of the Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center.

Mrs. Jager was a member of the First Christian Reformed Church in Orange City, and a former member of the Hawarden Reformed Church. She enjoyed cross stitching, crocheting, listening to country and Gospel music, and baking. Her grandchildren would say she was the best baker in town, specializing in cookies, pies, and banana bread. She also spent a considerable amount of time over the years compiling a family history book for multiple family trees.

Survivors include her three children and their spouses; Jerlene, and her husband, Virgil Van Schepen, of Maurice; Jason Mars, and his wife, Roxanne, of Orange City; and Jane, and her husband, Todd Andersen, of Sioux Falls; eight grandchildren and their spouses, Daniel (Gretta) Van Schepen, Joseph (Melissa) Van Schepen, Adam (Amy) Van Schepen; Lane (Sarah) Mars, Jessica (Renan) Viana da Silva; Joshua (Brynn) Andersen, Zachary (Janell) Andersen, and Anthony (Caitlin) Andersen; and nineteen great-grandchildren, Mathew and Jacob Van Schepen; William and Henley Van Schepen; Karlie, Kaden, Kyler, Kenadee, and Kambrie Van Schepen; Jaylynn and Jacoba Mars; Daniel and Benjamin Viana da Silva; Kaelyn and Garrett Andersen; Ernest and Rozlyn Andersen; and Wyatt and Connor Andersen; and many wonderful in-laws, nieces, and nephews.

In addition to her parents and husbands, she was preceded in death by two siblings and their spouses; Gerrit and Elizabeth Van Maanen and Lucille and Bert Kamies.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the First Christian Reformed Church in Orange City, and Hope Haven in Rock Valley.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.