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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Helen DeVos, the wife of a West Michigan business giant and the woman who helped give Grand Rapids one of the nation’s premier children’s hospitals, has died at the age of 90.
A statement from family said she died Wednesday.
She leaves behind her husband, Amway co-founder Rich DeVos; their four children; 16 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
“While we grieve her passing, we rejoice in her new life in heaven and are grateful for the countless ways she blessed our lives. We are comforted in knowing that she was welcomed home into the loving arms of Jesus,” the DeVos family said in a statement released early Thursday. “We will never forget her unfailing love, strength and devotion that were truly the heart of our family.”
Formerly Helen Van Wesep, she was born in 1927. She attended Frankfort High School near Traverse City before moving to Grand Rapids, where she graduated from Calvin College with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
She married Rich DeVos in 1953 and the pair raised three sons and a daughter, all of whom became involved in the operation of Amway.
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