- Date Of Birth: December 9, 1927
- Date Of Death: January 10, 2013
- State: Georgia
Wiepkje (Wies) Hendrika Baars Danckaerts, 85, of Newnan, Georgia passed away on Thursday, January 10th at the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute.
Mrs. Baars was born in Jakarta, Indonesia December 9, 1927. During the second World War, she and her family survived four years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp before moving to the Netherlands, where she met her future husband. In December of 1963, she and her family immigrated to the United States, setting down roots in Rye, New York. She and her husband later moved to South Windsor, Connecticut in 1999 and then Newnan, Georgia in May of 2012.
The most important thing in her life was family, which was celebrated annually with a vacation at a lake house on Dark Bay Point in Lake George. Although she led a frugal life and always had her coupons on hand, she was extremely generous to a large number of charities. Even her family did not realize how many organizations she supported until the stack of calendars arrived each year.
She is survived by her husband, Edward Baars; children, Carla, Dirk, and Robert; and grandchildren, Andrea, Kristen, Brian, and Connor.
