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      A Christmas song by Harko, will try to find another for this page 
         
          @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Harko and Rick
         with a friend Bill McGill in the background performing on stage, lots of talent in our family, Harko was very young there
         and now he is singing again and making CD's. Arnold's Bart
         living in Manitoba and visiting on one of his trucking trips, playing sequence with Vicky at Steve's and Elaine's place. Bart
         also passed away in 2005 in Calgary, Alberta Trijn and I,
         the last official picture taken before the last war. I don't think I was 3 yrs old yet. Mom and Marcia
         who went to visit her in  Holland after Dad passed away,  this is in Assen, Drenthe |  
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          Myself with
         Riet Vanderhel who came from Rotterdam and came to stay with our grandfather and aunt in Zeerijp, to gain weight. We became
         good friends, Riet was one day older than I. 
          Dirk in front of a mass choir presentation,
         as president of the St. Thomas male choir, who were often hosting these events,  he was expected to speak for them all
         and here he is also directing the choir because the director, Jack Dijkstra was absent. In front, in light blue jacket, on
         the far left is my second husband Ted 
          Myself with my two godsons, Mans and
         Anna's grandsons, Steve and Brian. I had knitted both sweaters so a picture had to be taken Christmas 1985 at Pat's place. I was
         a widow for 7 years already. How fast the time went. Ron's Deb on the left, Pat top right with Honor in front of her and myself
         in the center. Honor and I at her place in Waterloo,  as you can see we were always the best of friends. Cousins, Lammie
         Mulder and sister Trijn.  Lammie was a daughter of Mom's brother Arnold Steve and Rick
         with Dad's sister Martje, a lovely old lady, an Aunt who came to our house in Holland often Zoe, Rick' and
         Honor,s daughter and Vicky, Steve and Elaine's daughter, around Christmas time in Waterloo, Ontario Here I am on my first motor bike in the early 1980's, visiting Bart and Ruth in Waterloo. Mans,Anna and Andy were over from Holland. It had been pouring rain.    @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  Here are some
         of the pictures when we got together with the family members. There was always fun and laughter, even in sad times. We did
         not always agree with each other but we did and still do love each other. I feel blessed to have been part of this family
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               | Mans, Pat and
                     I waiting in Tobermory for the ferry to cross to the island. | 
                      Pat and Jean
                     came to visit me at Edna's place in Kitchener | 
                      Steve and Rick
                     having a bite and a discussion at the family reunion 2011 | Mans and Anna
                     over from Holland and Marcia and Rudy over from Manitoba, last time Mans and Anna would see Marcia |  
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                      Geppie, Rudy,
                     Brenda and Harko, family reunion 2004 | 
                      Joanne and I
                     at John and Jenny's place in Grand Bend | 
                      Myself and Hinke
                     with Trijn in the hospital in Groningen, after removal of a breast, still smiling and having a bite, 2008 | 
                      3 brothers having
                     a fun time fishing, Steve, Mans and Rick. Port Rowan, Ontario. Bart, Mans's son, had a trailer there. |  
               | Mans and I at
                     his son Bart's place in Waterloo | 
                      Here are Hinke
                     and I in a Granola field near Delfzijl, Groningen, Bart and her were so good to me. I stayed with them | 
                      Bart, Hinke
                     and I with Trijn, in Loppersum Groningen, after her breast operation. | 
                      Four sisters
                     together by our motor home in Texas. Trijn and Egbert were over from Holland several times |  
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                      Dirk and Steve
                     in Texas having a good time | 
                      A family get
                     together after Trijn passed away and Dirk was diagnosed with cancer at John's place in Grand Bend | 
                      Jean and I visiting
                     Allan in Edmonton, dead tired from all that walking around. | 
                      Trijn and I
                     in her home in 'tZandt, Groningen, 1979, Sam (Sip) had passed away already |  
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                      Dirk, Cora and
                     I having dinner at a restaurant in Grand Bend | 
                      Brenda and Hinke,
                     golfing partners and having a rest, a lovely picture, reunion 2011 | 
                      Anna visiting
                     Trijn in the hospital and having a drink in the coffee shop in Groningen, Trijn spend a lot of time in the hospital. | 
                      A family get
                     together due to a visit from Mans and Anna from Holland and Rudy and Marcia from Transcona, Manitoba at our house in Waterloo,
                     Ontario |  
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                      Barth, Dirk's son with brother Arnold at the family reunion 2011 in Tiverton, Ontario | 
                      Jean and I were
                     visiting Rudy and his wife Linda in Calgary, Alberta for the day, and they took us to Brenda's work place for dinner. | Pat and I at
                     the beach on San Padre Island, lovely place | Rick and Allan
                     in Rick's "OFFICE" in his home in Port Burwell. |  
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                      Pat and Jean
                     visiting me at my trailer in Manheim, Ontario for one of my birthdays, forgot which one | Mans and I,
                     family reunion 2004 | 
                      Steve and Rick
                     going on one of their trips to Holland | 
                      John and Jenny visiting Ted and I in Chatham, Ontario |  
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                      Rick and Jean
                     visiting me in my apartment in Rick's house at Port Burwell, Ontario | Two of the 3
                     couples came together for their anniversary in Groningen. Mans and Anna and Trijn and Egbert. The 10th I think. | Rick and Steve
                     on one of their visits to Holland, they took Johanna's boys to show them how to eat salt herring. Both Robert and Stefan are
                     not to sure if they should try it. Robert looks like it might bite him, cute | Mans and I fooling
                     around as was usual. Mans and Anna came over from Holland to visit their Bart in Waterloo |  
               | My son, Allan
                     visiting Trijn and Egbert in 'tZandt, Groningen | Cora, Dirk and
                     myself visiting Rick and Honor when they were still living in Waterloo | Mans, Anna and
                     Jean came to visit Ted and I in Chatham, Ontario | One of our family
                     party's, where i don't know anymore |  
               | Pat, Jean and
                     I at Randy, sister Pat's son, and Patrice's house for their anniversary in Toronto, Ontario | 
                      Pat and Jean
                     visiting Dirk, living in Grand Bend, Ontario, shortly before he passed away. | Jean and I at
                     Steve and Elaine's for the wedding of Steven and Julie, their youngest son, in one of the greenhouses | Rick and Steve
                     having a meal outside with Trijn and Egbert and some of their family members in Holland |  
         
         	    
            
               | Rudy, Brenda
                     and I, having a quiet moment at the family reunion 2004 | Trijn's Bart
                     and I having an ice cream in Loppersum, Groningen. The whole town had a garage sale, a real festive event with bands and all
                     kinds of vendors | Zoe and her daughter
                     Alicia with my son Allan in Red Deer, Alberta. Zoe was there to visit her son Drake. | Rick and Steve
                     having a good time in Holland. Rick set the camera for a self portrait and had to run like heck to get back up there he said. |  
               | Sol, Roy and
                     Pat at Ron and Deb's 25th wedding anniversary BBQ. | Sebo, Steve
                     and Rick on one of their visit to Holland, either staying with Trijn or her daughter Johanna | Pat and I visiting
                     Jean at her home at the time in Listowel, Ontario | Jean, Pat and
                     I at Christmas time in Texas, staying there for the winter. |  
               | Sebo and Johanna with brother Rick on a boating trip in Holland
 | Marcia's Brenda
                     in the back with the four sister at the family reunion in Tiverton, 2004 | Bart and Wil
                     and I at the school reunion in 'tZandt, Groningen, 2009 | Trijn and Rick
                     shopping in Aylmer, Ontario. Trijn came over from Holland for the Wassing reunion 2004 with her daughter Johanna. |  
               | Henny (not me),
                     Mans, Anna, Arnold and Rudy, reunion 2004 | John's 84th
                     birthday, Jean and I in the back. Rick, Pat and John in the front. April, 2010 | Pat, Jean and
                     I, shopping of course, Stone Road Park Mall in Guelph, Ontario | Rick and I visiting
                     John and Jenny in Grand Bend, Ontario |  
               | Rick and Steve,
                     visiting John in Grand Bend, shortly after this John passed away in the hospital in Exeter, Ontario | Most of the
                     family was still there when this group picture was taken. We had asked for a newspaper reporter but that did not happen. | 
                      Bart showing
                     me here how short I am, just if I didn't know that already. All in fun, reunion 2011 | Visiting Cora
                     in St. Thomas. Jean standing, Cora and Pat sitting, I took the picture |  
               | Cora and I on
                     the couch in her living room. A nice apartment. | Ron, Brenda,
                     Hinke and Bart played as a team and bonded together. They are now the best of friends as well as family. Wassing Family reunion,
                     2011. | Harko and Geppie
                     took Rick and myself out for  dinner in honour of my birthday in a buffet restaurant in Pembroke, Ontario.  | Randy and Pat's cottage in Bancroft where a bunch of the family
                     members came together last summer, 2012. I had a better picture but can't find it. |  
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