May God bless you and your...
Very sorry for your loss, Jake. We know you adored her. Hope you are doing well.
Nancy & Ralph Leitsinger
July 26, 2024 | Other


Kalamazoo, Michigan
Age 81
Smit, JoAnne Kalamazoo, MI JoAnne Smit passed away Sunday, February 27, 2022, in Rose Arbor Hospice Residence. She was born January 27, 1941, in Kalamazoo, MI daughter of the late Henry and Anne (VanBruggen) VerHage. She graduated from Richland High School in 1959 and graduated as an RN from...
Read MoreVery sorry for your loss, Jake. We know you adored her. Hope you are doing well.
Nancy & Ralph Leitsinger
July 26, 2024 | Other
I just learned today of Joanne's passing. I am so sorry for the loss of such a wonderful lady. I had just spoken with her on the phone, a few weeks prior to her passing, it seems. Spoke for roughly 45 minutes...I'll miss you Joanne. Rest in Heaven.
Richard Hopper
April 29, 2022 | Work
Jake and family. I´m sorry to hear about JoAnne´s passing. JoAnne and Jake always welcomed me into their home for good conversation and I usually left with some banana bread! Rest In Peace, job well done.
Paul Snow
March 02, 2022 | Work
Wow, I am so sorry to hear this news. What a woman JoAnne was! Side by side with Jake in the concrete business, for all those years. My grandma and dad would tell stories of JoAnne stopping by our shop for tools and equipment, with all the kids in tow! Chaos! Years after I would have many conversations with her about her now adult children, and her grandkids. Of course we always appreciated the hand delivered banana bread, and whatever that rich almond treat was! I always wondered how she...
Regan Fader
March 02, 2022
So very sorry to hear about JoAnne´s passing. Will always remember our mission trip to KICY in Nome, AK in 2007. JoAnne and others were in charge of the food for the crew and I was privileged to help Jake with a cement project for the new towers. Always a pleasant lady to be around. Save a place for me JoAnne!
Kelly Thomas Casey
March 01, 2022