Thelma Veneklasen (donor) Kenneth Veneklasen (is related to) Kenneth Veneklasen of Grand Rapids, Michigan served in the United States Army during World War II. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and also invaded the Netherlands in a Grand Rapids-built glider. Veneklasen also liberated the Wöbbelin Concentration Camp near the city of Ludwigslust in 1945.