{"id":69214,"date":"2019-10-08T10:35:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=69214"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:35:11","slug":"portena-willem-age-88-route-1-monkton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2019\/10\/portena-willem-age-88-route-1-monkton\/","title":{"rendered":"Portena, Willem (Age 88, Route 1, Monkton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-69216\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2019\/10\/7cd135c6-portena-willem-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Willem PORTENA<\/strong>\u00a0of Route 1 Monkton, passed away peacefully at Huron Residential Hospice, Clinton on Monday October 7, 2019 at the age of 88.\u00a0 Willem immigrated to Canada in 1988.\u00a0 His greatest passion was his farming and his family, especially spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.\u00a0 Willem was so proud that all of his children followed in his footsteps as dairy farmerS.\u00a0 Beloved husband of Aafke (Faber) Portena whom he married in 1959.\u00a0\u00a0 Loving father of Mike and Theresa Portena, Bettina (deceased 2018) and Henk Schuurmans, and Rick and Ingrid Portena. \u00a0Special pake of Joanne and Brendan, Gina, Ryan, Marco, Jim and Kate, Tom and Vanessa, Eric and Romy, Lize and Andrew, Emily and Brodie, Carmen and Kiel, Kristen, Rene and great-pake of Ellie and Leni.\u00a0 Fondly remembered by the extended family in the Netherlands.\u00a0 Predeceased by his parents Lykle and Betje (Holkema) Portena.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives and friends are invited to share their memories at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennemanfuneralhome.ca\/\">Brenneman Funeral Home<\/a>, 141 John Street, Atwood (519-356-2382), on Thursday October 10 from 7 &#8211; 9 p.m.\u00a0 The funeral service to celebrate Willem\u2019s life will be held at Bethel Christian Reformed Church, 345 Elizabeth Street East, Listowel on Friday October 11, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. with Pastor Henry Meinen officiating. \u00a0Interment in Elma Centre Cemetery, Atwood.<\/p>\n<p>As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations to Huron Residential Hospice or Listowel Memorial Hospital Foundation would be appreciated by the family. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennemanfuneralhome.ca\">www.brennemanfuneralhome.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willem PORTENA\u00a0of Route 1 Monkton, passed away peacefully at Huron Residential Hospice, Clinton on Monday October 7, 2019 at the age of 88.\u00a0 Willem immigrated to Canada in 1988.\u00a0 His greatest passion was his farming and his family, especially spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.\u00a0 Willem was so proud that all of his children","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,9,2287],"class_list":["post-69214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-atwood","tag-brenneman-funeral-home","tag-willem-portena"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 22:51:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2019\/10\/portena-willem-age-88-route-1-monkton\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69217,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69214\/revisions\/69217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}