Person Sheet


Name John Cornelius VanLooy
Birth 25 Jul 1917, Detroit, MI1
Death 23 Jan 1992, Bay City, MI1 Age: 74
Death Memo Heart Attack
Burial 26 Jan 1992, Bay City MI1
Burial Memo Elm Lawn Cemetery
Occupation Tool & Die maker; Salesman
Religion Presbyterian
Alias/AKA "Boppa" to his Grandkids
Father John Cornelius VanLooy (1884-1941)
Mother Margaret (Margaretha) Mynders (1883-1952)
Misc. Notes
Served in military during WWII. Never saw action; was a shooting instructor.

Farsighted, he loved to birdwatch. He used to drive all over Michigan to see the migrating birds with Gramma. He could spot a bird or a deer at the far edge of a cleared field while driving. He was a gun collector, but used "going shooting" as an excuse to birdwatch and walk in the country.

After retirement, active in the Bay County Historical Society. Helped arrange moving of Trombley House (oldest house in Bay County). Also active at the Bay City Players and at his church, First Presbyterian.

A woodworker, he built dollhouses for all his granddaughters; mine was a scale model of my own house. Made dollhouse furniture, both from kits and from scratch. Tiny rush-seated chairs, dressers with hand-turned knobs on his lathe. He built a scale model of the Trombley house to be raffled off to raise money for the historical society.

His funeral was well-attended, both by people from his organizations and by people from his AA group. We'd never met many of them, but more than one shook my hand and told me "your grandpa saved me."
Spouses
1 (Merna) Adeline Carter
Birth 28 Sep 1916, Detroit, MI1
Death 10 Aug 1997, Midland, MI1 Age: 80
Death Memo Metastatic Breast Cancer or Lymphoma, in Midland hospital
Father William Tyler Carter (1884-1967)
Mother Merna Frances Hall (1878-1922)
Marriage 18 Jun 1940, Detroit, MI2
Marriage Memo Covenant Presbyterian Church
Misc. Notes
Boppa and Gramma met in a church youth group, taking 10-cents-an hour canoe rides on Belle Island in Detroit.

They led a youth group together, later. The following comes from a memoir ACV wrote for a book about that youth group.

"I met John VanLooy at Barb Urquhart's house at a church meeting, though I had seen him at Eastern High School. Later we dated 'on and off' for six years, and then were engaged for six months. But during that time he contracted TV (1937) and was in bed at Ford Hospital for six months. he then went home to stay in bed another six months. Oh, how the treatment for that disease has changed since then."
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