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Helen
Marie Vanderpol Macy SULLY — Helen Marie
Vanderpol Macy, 83, of Sully died from complications of dementia Monday, Feb. 4,
at Heritage Manor Care Center in Newton. Funeral services will be Thursday at
l:30 p.m. at the First Reformed Church in Sully. Burial will be at Sully
Cemetery. Van Dyk-Duven Funeral Home in Pella is handling arrangements. Friends may call today at the
funeral home where family will be available from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Memorials will
be accepted to the music department of the First Reformed Church in Sully. The daughter of Simon and
Helene Boot Vanderpol, she was born March 18, 1918, in rural Sully. She
graduated from the Sully High School and from Central College in 1939 with a
major in English and a minor in music. She taught for two years in Ottosen. On
June 18, 1941, she married Bryce Ogden Macy in Sully. She then taught school in
Sully until her husband was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. They
returned to Sully in 1945, where she was a substitute teacher for several years.
She was involved in the music department of the First Reformed Church in Sully,
where she directed choirs for 40 years. She also taught piano lessons. Mrs. Macy was a member of the
First Reformed Church, charter member of APRES MIDI [a social group involved in
the community], advisory committee for the Lynnville-Sully school district and
assisted with editing the Sully centennial book. Survivors include her
husband, three sons and a daughter-in-law, Curtis and Linda of Cleveland, Tenn.,
Mark of Sun Prairie, Wis., and William of St. Paul, Minn., two granddaughters; a
great-grand-son, a sister-in-law, Wilma Vanderpol of Pella and a step-brother,
Ward Versteegh and his wife Almetta of Sacramento, Calif. She was preceded in death by
her parents, stepmother, a sister, two brothers and a stepbrother. Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, February 6, 2002. |
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