Catherine A. Koetsier

Catherine "Kathy" Anne Koetsier, 64, of Grand Haven died on Tuesday, October 11th, 2017 in Houston, Texas after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. She was born in Spokane, Washington on June 18, 1953 to Warren and Barbara Teunis. Kathy was a part of the Grand Haven community the majority of her life. She worked as a Retail Manager for several Grand Haven clothing stores in her early career making friends with many of her customers. She then went on to work as a Professional Recruiter for Manpower and Workforce across the Lakeshore area. She helped hundreds of local residents find gainful employment. Kathy was a devoted daughter, mother, sister and grandmother. In the last two years of her life she relocated to Houston, Texas to live with her daughter Stacy, son-in-law Marko and two granddaughters, Grace, 4, and Eve, 2, and her cherished dog Maddy. She cherished the fact that she was with her family while doing her cancer treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Kathy and her daughter Stacy spent every day together in the last two years and built so many special memories just living everyday life. She also got to be the active grandmother she always wanted to be to Grace...[more]

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d Eve, and cherished taking them to the zoo, playgrounds, museums, ballet classes, swimming, just to name a few. Kathy loved life and stayed very active up until her death. She enjoyed music, shopping, fashion, interior design, home renovations, landscaping and gardening. Everything she touched just turned out beautiful.

SURVIVORS

Kathy will be greatly missed by her family. Survivors include her daughter, Stacy Koetsier; her son-in-law, Marko Hirvensalo; her granddaughters, Grace and Eve Hirvensalo; her father, Warren Teunis; her sister, Karen (Tom) Mastenbrook; her brothers, Gary Teunis and Dan (Lisa) Teunis; and several nieces and nephews, Allison Koetsier, Amie (Matt) VanAmberg, Lucas Crum, Alex (Leslie) Crum, Brian (Rachel) Teunis and Amanda (Brian) Wojczynski. She was preceded in death by her mother, Barbara Teunis, her husband, Keith Koetsier, her parents-in-law Thomas Donald and Edith Koetsier.

CELEBRATION OF LIFE

Friday, October 20, 2017, 10:00 am at First Reformed Church with Rev. John Kenny officiating. MEMORIAL: Donations in her honor can be made to MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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