Hendrik was born 3 Jan 1920, 98 yrs ago.\u00a0 He was my mother’s only sibling, and according to my mother, her parents, especially her mother, favored their son and first-born.<\/p>\n
Like his father, he became a tax inspector. He ended up in Wageningen, where his children were born. I have fond memories of visiting with them. The funny thing is that he lived about two blocks from where my in-laws lived, so it was easy to go see them, when we went to the Netherlands to visit family.<\/p>\n
He told me a story about going bicycling with his (maternal) grandfather Ulpen de Haan<\/a>\u00a0(dutch link<\/a>) to a piece of property he owned, where he grew rye, to work the land.<\/p>\n In his last years he was suffering from dementia, and mental trauma from WWII. It was sad to hear about. He died at 85. His wife survived him by 9 years. I remember them fondly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hendrik was born 3 Jan 1920, 98 yrs ago.\u00a0 He was my mother’s only sibling, and according to my mother, her parents, especially her mother, favored their son and first-born. Like his father, he became a tax inspector. He ended up in Wageningen, where his children were born. I have …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-born-on-this-day","category-family","tag-de-haan","column","onecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}