Charlotte E. VanderHoning is associated with Sand Lake, Michigan, where she has also been involved in Percheron horse breeding through the VanderHoning family's Dutch Love Farm. Her documented family relations include Eleanor, identified as her mother, and Gerald, identified as her father.
VanderHoning earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University in 1971. Her later professional work combined education with biology instruction, including undergraduate laboratory teaching at Grand Valley State University.
VanderHoning began her working life in education and community-oriented school services. In 1971 she worked as a migrant school assistant for Grant Public Schools and also began teaching vocational agriculture at Kent City Public School, where she remained through 1976. From 1976 to 1978 she worked as a veterinary assistant at Rockford Animal Hospital. She subsequently developed a long-term academic career at Grand Valley State University, where she was associated with Biology and taught undergraduate General Biology laboratory sections. University records document her instruction there from at least 2015 through 2021, and a 2012 university service recognition identified her among Biology personnel receiving a 30-year service award.
VanderHoning is identified in the biographical record as the daughter of Eleanor and Gerald. She is also connected with the VanderHoning family horse-breeding operation in Sand Lake, Michigan, including Dutch Love Farm.
