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Mamma hard at work
Uncle Bobby, helping out with our Family Tree
The newest addition to the family: Daniel Richard Montgomery, shown
here with his dad, Dan Sr.
Recently discovered cousins, Wina en Klaas Jonkman
(picture courtesy of Klaas Jonkman)
Oom Henk, Tante Griet and their great-grandson, Gert Jan Boersma
(picture courtesy of Grietje Boersma)
Ready to go to Canada
Klaas Jonkman sent me this picture of my grandmother on her 100th birthday, along with a newspaper column:
LEEUWARDEN - The oldest resident of the old-age home Greunshiem, Mrs. Trijntje
Jonkman-Stegewans, hopes to celebrate her hundredth birthday tomorrow.
On the occasion of the party, eleven family members came from Canada to
Leeuwarden. "Seeing my family together I find even much nicer than the
fact that I'm turning one hunderd", says Mrs. Jonkman. On the programme
is a reception in the morning at the old-age home, and later in the day
a reception, a cold buffet for seventy people and a party in the hall Het
Westen. "I don't mind all the busy-ness. I've asked for live music at the
party, because I like that", tells the alert Greunshiem- resident.
Mrs. Jonkman was born in Kollum. For years, she was in domestic service in Leeuwarden and Den Haag. With her husband, who passed away in '77, she lived in Kollum and Leeuwarden: 43 years in the Merelstraat. After that, an apartment in De Kei, after which she moved, eight months ago to Greunshiem, where her 91-year-old brother already lived. "Ik see poorly and hear poorly and so I can't read, watch television, or do crafts much any more. What I can do is keep my room neat. I like to work, and always make my own cup of coffee".
Eight children were born, of whom four are still alive. Further there
are 20 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and even a great- great-grandchild.
Seven times did Mrs. Jonkman visit her children in Canada, the last time
in '66. Her son tells of that last visit: "She met many friends and acquaintances
of ours. If you ask her now, she still remembers all their names, while
I have difficulty with that!"
OK, we need a rest...
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