John Roland Bloemendaal was born to Dirk Cornelius Bloemendaal and Lillian Ruth Linell Bloemendaal on August 30th, 1940, in Zeeland, Michigan. He was their fifth of six children. He graduated from Zeeland High School in 1958 and attended Hope College where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962. He took additional classes at Huron College in Huron, South Dakota and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan before achieving an MBA from Thomas College in Waterville, Maine.
John was a public and private school teacher of mathematics and sciences for most of his adult life. He also taught wooden boat construction at the Washington County Technical College in Eastport, Maine, and finished his teaching career at the Washington County Community College in Calais, Maine as a professor of Science and Mathematics.
In 1967, John married Marion Jean Snow, whom he met while teaching at the West Ottawa Junior High School in Holland Township, Michigan. They loved sailing, classical music, and entertaining family and friends. One of the highlights of their marriage was a sailing trip from Kennebunkport, Maine to Holland, Michigan on their 1942 wooden sloop Djinn in the late 1970s. In 1985, they left West Michigan and moved to Downeast Maine, where they remained until 2015.
John was preceded in death by his parents, Lillian Bloemendaal (1969) and Dirk Bloemendaal (1973); his brothers, Dirk Bloemendaal (2009) and William (2012); his sister, Barbara Dickman (2014), and his wife Jean Bloemendaal (2016).
He is survived by his sisters, Elizabeth Walters of Rockford, Michigan and Mary Ferguson of Holland, Michigan, his stepchildren Robert Lubbers of Atlanta, Georgia, Richard Lubbers of Holland, Michigan, and Margaret Quesada of Durham, North Carolina, along with numerous nephews and nieces.
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