Henry H Dekker

1930 - 2013  (82 years)

• Name	Henry H Dekker  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Birth	about 1930	Grand Rapids, Michigan   [2]
  Birth	18 September 1930	Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Race	White  [2, 3, 7]
  Residence	1935	Galewood-Burlingame, Kent, Michigan   [7]
  Residence	01 April 1940	Galewood-Burlingame, Kent, Michigan, USA   [7]
  	Age: 9; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
  Graduation	1948	Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA   [4]
  	Grand Rapids Christian High
  Residence	November 1951	Grand Rapids, Michigan   [2, 8]
  Occupation	1977  [4]
  	One of the founders of the Mitsubishi Group of America (MGA)
  Occupation	after 1991	Malabar, Brevard, Florida, USA   [4]
  	President of the Dekker Group, a business consultant specializing in employee personality profiles
  Death	13 June 2013	Florida, USA   [1, 4, 5, 6]
  	Age: 82
  Person ID	I11266	Koster

  
  

  Father	John Dekker,   b. about 1889, Netherlands
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Mary VanderMaas,   b. about 1893, Netherlands
  Relationship	Natural
  Family ID	F3674	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse	Living
  Children	+ 1. Susan Dekker  [Natural]   2. Pamela Dekker  [Natural]
  Family ID	F3673	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S330] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1700s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for Henry H Dekker [S366] Ancestry.com, Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;). Record for Alice Virginia Zuiderveen [S366] Ancestry.com, Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;). Record for Henry Dekker [S275] Ancestry.com, United States Obituary Collection, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Publication Date: 23 Jun 2013; Publication Place: Brevard, Florida, USA. Record for Henry Dekker Henry H. Dekker, of Malabar, Florida, died on Thursday June 13, 2013, after a long struggle with Lewy Body Dementia. A memorial service will be held at Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Palm Bay, Florida, on Saturday June 29, 2013, at 11:00 am. A successful businessman and entrepreneur, Henry was respected by all who knew him and worked with him as a man of deep faith, unshakable integrity, and great wisdom, and will be deeply missed by his family and friends. A firm believer in the Christian faith from his youth, he trusted in the birth, death, and resurrection of his Savior Jesus Christ for the sins of His people and as the hope of the world, and in the sure hope of the bodily resurrection from the dead to new life at the end of this present age.Henry was born September 18, 1930, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He graduated from Grand Rapids Christian High in 1948, and then attended the Free University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands just after World War II. Later in his life, as he embarked on a second career as a Christian Counselor, he received an honorary doctorate from the Christian Bible College and Seminary of Missouri.Henry, as many of his generation, served in the Korean War as a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. After this, he was a sales manager and served on the corporate staff of the Westinghouse Corporation, in their appliances division. In 1977, Henry became one of the founders of the Mitsubishi Group of America (MGA), introducing Mitsubishi television and audio equipment to the Southeast, and later served as one of 6 Vice Presidents in the United States, based in Atlanta. He retired from Mitsubishi in 1991, where he and Alice then moved to Malabar, Florida, near Melbourne. After this, Henry launched into a second career as president of the Dekker Group, as a business consultant specializing in employee personality profiles. He later became a certified Christian Counselor.Henry served on the board of Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando) for 40 years; the board of Christian Care Ministries; the board of International Christian Counselors; and on the board of the Good News Doctor Foundation for Autism. In addition, in his early years in Florida, he served as a councilman for the town of Malabar, and participated in the Florida League of Cities.Henry was married to Alice Zuiderveen Dekker for 61 years. He was preceded in death by his parents John and Mary Dekker, and by his sister Jo Willemstyn. He is survived by daughter Pamela and husband Robbie Peele (and grandchildren Deborah, Christine, Matthew, wife Beth, and great-grandson Smith) of Roswell, Georgia; daughter Susan and husband Doug Mann (and grandchild Stephen) of Malabar, Florida; son John and wife Therese Dekker (and grandchildren Ryan, Nicholas and Natalie) of Bishop, Georgia; and son Stephen and wife Keiko Dekker (grandchildren David and Daniel) of Tokyo, Japan. Affiliations US Marine Corps The insignias listed here may be subject to copyright and / or trademarked. Those copyrights and trademarks are owned by the respective organizations. [S335] Ancestry.com, U.S. Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Record for Henry Dekker [S29] Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;), Issue State: Michigan; Issue Date: Before 1951. Record for Henry Dekker [S203] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Galewood-Burlingame, Kent, Michigan; Roll: T627_1776; Page: 25A; Enumeration District: 41-48A. Record for John Dekker [S38] Online Resource, Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952 - Ancestry.com. search.ancestry.com.