GENERATION 8 – HILTJE (HELEN) HANZES DE JONG AND WILLLEM WIGBOLT VAN MALSEN

Hiltje de Jong (now called Helen) made her home in Grand Rapids and married Willem Van Malsen. Please go to the Van Malsen family page for information about the Van Malsen family. I don’t know much about the Willem Van Malsen family. I have been contacted by several Van Malsen relatives, but most of them descend through one of Willems’ brothers. My hope is that descendants of Willem and Helen Van Malsen will contact me and help fill me in the blanks. I think there was a closeness between Helen and my Great Grandfathr.  I have many pictures from Grand Rapids on my DeYoung unknown pictures page. I am sure many of them are Van Malsen relatives.

Helen and Willem had nine children (Anne, Winnie, Hans, Peter, Clarence, Marie, Bert, Mabel, and Hazel).

Here is a picture of the Van Malsen family about 1915.

It is hard to read but from left to right – back:  Anne, Hans, Marie, and Peter.  Left to right – middle:  Wilhelmina (Winnie), Mabel, Willem, Bert, Hiltje (Helen), Clarence.  Front:  Elizabeth Hazel.

Helen, Willem and their youngest daughter Hazel visited Hans and Ida in Kent, Washington about 1920 shortly before Helen died of Nephrites in 1926 at 57.

From left to right front row: Milford DeYoung, Hazel Van Malsen, Frances DeYoung, Lowell DeYoung Helen Van Malsen. Back Row: Ida DeYoung, Menno DeYoung, Ellen DeYoung, Willem Van Malsen.

Here is a picture of the Dykstra’s, DeYoung’s and Van Malsen’s at Pete and Nellie Dykstra’s house when they visited Kent

From left to right: Nellie (Starkenburg) Dykstra, Ida (Dykstra) DeYoung, Helen (de Jong) Van Malsen, Peter Dykstra, Menno DeYoung, Willem Van Malsen, Ida Dykstra.

Next is a picture of Milford, Frances, and Lowell DeYoung and Hazel Van Malsen.

Helen (de Jong) Van Malsen died in 1926 shortly after her visit to Kent.

Willem Van Malsen never remarried and died in 1948 in Grand Rapids.