{"id":75512,"date":"2020-07-06T10:25:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=75512"},"modified":"2020-07-07T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:20:37","slug":"van-donkersgoed-bert-age-87-listowel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2020\/07\/van-donkersgoed-bert-age-87-listowel\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Donkersgoed, Bert (Age 87, Listowel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75514\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2020\/07\/aeb8dd37-van-donkersgoed.jpg\" alt=\"Bert (Gijsbertus) van Donkersgoed\" \/>Bert (Gijsbertus) van Donkersgoed, formerly of Listowel, passed away Saturday morning, July 4, 2020 at his home in Waterloo at the age of 87 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is predeceased by his wife Grace (Geesje van Dijk) and their son Luke.\u00a0 He is survived by his children, Gerald and Laurie of Surrey, BC, Christine and Frank of Sherwood Park, AB and Bernie and Dan of Rochester Hills, MI as well as grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Dad came to Canada in 1948 from The Netherlands and settled with his family in Brandon. MB.\u00a0 He soon met mom and they married in 1954.\u00a0 They raised 4 children, moving to Brussels, Ontario in 1972.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dad worked hard for his family, and the school of life took over when his formal education stopped.\u00a0 He was an avid learner.\u00a0 Many life lessons and problem solving occurred with his friends at McDonalds in Listowel.\u00a0 Mom would have been so proud of the way dad made a conscience and intentional decision to be happy and gracious and positive after her passing 5 years ago.\u00a0The sparkle in his eye was always there, as was the willingness to sit down and have a visit.\u00a0 In recent months he suffered from the parallel disease of Covid \u2013 Confinement Disease.\u00a0 His iPad and phone kept him in touch with the world, but couldn\u2019t replace the human contact he enjoyed so much.\u00a0 Special thanks to his niece and her husband \u2013 Betty and Peter Neufeld \u2013 for all the love and care they showered on dad and mom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visitation will be held at the Eaton Funeral Home, Listowel on Tuesday from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., where a private family funeral service will be held on Wednesday, July 8th at 11:00 a.m. Rev. Don McCallum officiating.\u00a0 Interment in Cranbrook Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>***\u00a0 PLEASE NOTE THE FUNERAL SERVICE HAS BEEN MOVED TO KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to restrictions, a limited number of attendees will be permitted.\u00a0 Attendees must RSVP through the funeral home website.\u00a0 Anyone who is not on the RSVP list will not be allowed to attend. The funeral will be live-streamed, and the link will be posted on the funeral home website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memorial donations to the Listowel Memorial Hospital Foundation or the Terry Fox Foundation if so desired would be appreciated, and may be made through the Eaton Funeral Home, Listowel. Online condolences may be left at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatonfuneralhome.ca\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.eatonfuneralhome.ca&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594125697736000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGgxnIyV9eF5NhjIFluVSy_ETn1Kg\">www.eatonfuneralhome.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bert (Gijsbertus) van Donkersgoed, formerly of Listowel, passed away Saturday morning, July 4, 2020 at his home in Waterloo at the age of 87 years. He is predeceased by his wife Grace (Geesje van Dijk) and their son Luke.\u00a0 He is survived by his children, Gerald and Laurie of Surrey, BC, Christine and Frank of","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4338,5,7,3949],"class_list":["post-75512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-bert-gijsbertus-van-donkersgoed","tag-eaton-funeral-home","tag-listowel","tag-obituary"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 11:48:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2020\/07\/van-donkersgoed-bert-age-87-listowel\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75512","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75512"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75535,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75512\/revisions\/75535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}