1945-2003

HARPSWELL – Joseph A. De Haan, 58, of High Head Road, died Saturday, Dec. 6, 2003 at Maine Medical Center, following a two-year battle with multiple myeloma.

He was born in Groningen, Netherlands on Feb. 9, 1945 the son of Tjerk DeHaan and Johanna Siemensma.

He came with his family to Maine in 1957. He attended Sacred Heart School in Auburn, St. Joseph’s College in Memramcook, New Brunswick, and graduated in 1963 from Edward Little High School. He graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Mass. in 1966. He served in the U.S. Navy.

On May 10, 1975 he married Lynda Godwin of Georgetown, Mass. He worked for 38 years as a computer field service engineer in Massachusetts and Maine for General Electric, Honeywell, Bull HN, Wand and Getronics in the Boston area as well as in Augusta, Portland, and Lewiston, Auburn.

He followed his son’s soccer career from kindergarten through Mt. Ararat;s first Maine state soccer championship and in the past two years enjoyed watching him play men’s league soccer.

He was an enthusiastic sailor and a long time member of the Kennebec River Chapter of the U.S. Power Squadron, enjoying sailing vacations with his family over 22 years in Harpswell.

He is survived by: his parents, Tjerk and Johanna De Haan of Auburn; his wife Lynda and daughter, Johanna De Haan of Harpswell, and his son, Derek, of Kittery; three brothers, Andre and his wife, Miriam, of Mandeville, La., Theo of Queenbury, N.Y. and Dirk and his wife, Tina, of Lewiston; two sisters, Maria De Haan Petrola and her husband, Robert, of Wakefield, Mass. and Ida De Haan Weissman and her husband, Walter, of Bad Windsheim, Germany; and two nieces and three nephews.

DEHAAN – Friends may visit from 2-4 and 6-8 P.M., Wednesday, December 10, 2003 at the Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal Street, Brunswick. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 A.M., Thursday, December 11, 2003 at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 132 McKeen Street, Brunswick with the Rev. Stephen Concannon officiating. Interment will be in Hillcrest Cemetery, Harpswell in the spring.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Harpswell Neck Fire and Rescue, P.O. Box 8, Harpswell, Maine 04079 or John De Haan ODP Scholarship Fund, c/o SoccerMaine, 711 Maine Street, Suite 2, Bangor, Maine 04401.

Condolences may be expressed at www.brackettfuneralhome.com