Jacoba (Coe) Adriana Payne of Manassas, Virginia passed away on September 4, 2015. She was born in Homoet, Holland on February 1, 1922 and immigrated with her family to the US in early 1923. The Family settled in Minnesota and stayed there until the early 1930’s when they moved back to Holland. In October of 1938 they left Holland for the United States and settled in Virginia. She worked for Safeway for 30+ years before she retired in the late 1980’s. She remained active with her catering and was well known in the community for her generosity and business of wedding receptions and other types gatherings well into the late 1990’s. She was married to Thurston Royston Payne. She was the proud mother of four sons Harlen (Pete) Edward Veenendaal , Gerrit Thurston Payne, James Carroll Payne and Richard Lee Payne. She was a proud and lifelong member of the Rebekah Assembly of Virginia and the Women of the Moose lodge 1392.
She was preceded in death by her husband Thurston and two of her sons, Gerrit and James. She was also preceded in death by her parents, Gerrit Johannes and Johanna Jacoba Slothouber, her sister Hendrika Gezina (Slothouber) Hawkins, brother Derk Slothouber and sister Gerda Johanna (Slothouber) Fletcher, and two nephews, sons of sister Hendrika and husband Irving Hawkins, Raymond and Robbie Hawkins. She was the proud grandmother of beloved grandsons Christopher Payne, son of Richard and Sharon Payne of Flint Hill, VA and Gerrit Payne, son of James Payne and Kelly McDermott and the great-grandmother of Amelia Payne, daughter of Gerritt and Geneva Payne of Culpepper, VA. She was the proud Aunt of beloved nephews Richard Hawkins of Frederick, MD and Thomas Hawkins of Nokesville, whom were sons of sister Hendrika and husband Irving Hawkins and beloved nephews Roy Glenn, William Gerritt and Steven Allen Fletcher of Manassas whom were sons of sister Gerda and husband Joseph Henry Fletcher. She was the beloved Great Aunt to nephew Joseph Allen Fletcher, son of Steven and Vivian Fletcher of Manassas. She will be forever and greatly missed by many in our community.
Visitation will be from 6pm – 8pm Wednesday Sept 9 at Baker-Post Funeral Home, Manassas, VA. Funeral service will be held at 10:30am on Thursday Sept 10 at Baker-Post with grave side services at noon at Stonewall Memory Gardens in Manassas, Virginia.
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