Valley, Iowa, with her sister, Shayla Louwerse. Willow Creek offers clothing for women of all ages. The store started in Jaron and Kadee’s home as an onlineonly shop (shopwillowcreek.com) in February 2019. Six months in, during a “rally in the valley” promotion, the sisters did a trial run with a retail storefront in downtown Rock Valley. “The Rock Valley community came in strong and helped out and they decided to keep going,” Jaron said. Rock Valley is something of a clothing mecca with the popularity of Nearly New Town and The Economy Shop which draw customers from a vast geographic area. Willow Creek opened in its current location in November 2020. “They’ve never looked back. They have just kept growing and they can’t thank their customers and the Rock Valley community enough,” he said.
graduated from Western Christian High School in Hull.
Even though Jaron and Kadee grew up just a mile apart and both called Hudson home, they didn't meet each other until they were 20 and 17 because Jaron went to Netherlands Reformed Christian School through 10th grade and graduated from Rock Valley Public High School. Meanwhile, Kadee
The couple married in 2015. Their daughter, Tatum, is four years old and is very active in gymnastics in Sioux Falls and hopes to be in accelerated gymnastics this fall. She also enjoys swimming in their backyard pool with her friends and cousins. “She’s the sweetest little girl you'll ever meet. She's too nice.
Hudson natives Jaron and Kadee Van Beek found the ideal home and farm just north of Worthing. Kadee commutes to Rock Valley to run Willow Boutique.
She gets that from Mama.” Two-year-old Kyzer is a “wild man” who is always on the go. “He’s a little shadow of Tatum. She jumps in the pool – he jumps in the pool. He wants to be in gymnastics like her, so he’ll join their ‘Ninja Warrior’ course up there. He's an onery one and a stubborn little boy. He probably gets that from me.”
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