Johannes van den Arend

Johannes van den Arend

December 8, 1925 ~ September 29, 2014

Johannes “John” van den Arend passed away on September 29, 2014 in Sandy Utah of natural causes.

He was born on December 8, 1925 in Den Haag, Netherlands to Johannes and Louise Pauli- van den Arend.  He married the love of his life Cornelia Petronella Schoonen, on August 22, 1951 in Delft, South Holland. In 1955 John and Corry moved to America and resided in Ogden, Utah to raise a family.

Corry van den Arend passed away on January 2, 1988. He later married Ruth Bradburry van den Arend. They were married over 20 years before she passed away on November 7, 2013.

He graduated from a college in the Netherlands with a degree in electrical mechanics.

John served in the Royal Dutch Navy during WWII in the submarine division. When the war first began, he was active in the underground group to help hide and save lives of many young people in Holland.  The Ogden Standard Examiner wrote a story about his brave acts during the war in their paper on June 1, 2009.

John worked as a quality control inspector for several companies, he retired from Parker Hannifin in 1993. John and Corry were also active foster parents to hundreds of foster children for 20 years.

John was a Catholic, and a member of the Holy Family Church in South Ogden. He enjoyed his Dutch T.V. programs and making copies for others to enjoy.  John was a loyal caregiver to his family and all the foster children that came into his life. He enjoyed fishing especially at Mirror Lake.

He was preceded in death by his spouse Corry van den Arend and his second spouse Ruth Bradbury van den Arend, his brother Mike van den Arend and his sister in law Maria Kamhoot. He leaves behind his sister, Loes Vlaardinger of Holland, brother-in-law P.J.A.A. Schoonen (Colby); his daughters Wilhelmina (Jason) Mathias, Petra (Derrick) Hisatake and one son John Corey van den Arend and foster daughter Sandra Murvin. He also leaves behind six grandchildren: Ryan Budd Burnett, Chad Thomas Burnett, Luis Smith, Ashley Smith, Paige Smith and Nicole Hisatake, and two great-grandchildren, and numerous stepchildren, step-grandchildren, and great-grandchildren that he loved and adored.

There will be no services as requested by the family. He will be laid to rest after cremation at Lindquist’s Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch in South Ogden, Utah.

Special thanks to Dr. Hans Jenkins, Dr. Samual Otto and nurse Pat Rushton for their compassion and caring to our father.  Since 2012 our father was lovingly cared for by our sister Petra and her husband Derrick in their home. They unselfishly opened up their hearts and home to give our father the love and care he needed with dignity and respect. For that act of kindness, there are no measurable words to properly thank them for all they have done, but thank you sister, it meant the world to our father and our families.

In lieu of flowers a memorial fund is set up in John van den Arend’s Memorial Fund at Golden West Credit Union to defer burial costs.