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FAM6 23-24 45p: p1 original album page; p2-6 This is a beautiful nostalgia-evoking pic of us Kok kids with Jim-dad in Iowa City at a wide-open field-park playing on the teeter-totter, p7-10 sis-Julie , me, bro-Andy in Iowa City looking happy; p11-13 Painting the basement of the Iowa parsonage (church) including Don Swierenga (a name I’ve heard before), & the familiar green-&-white canteen in the foreground (I think they still have & use that canteen 40+ years later) ; p14-17 some of Jim’s “international students”; he continued to do CPE supervision with international students as a chaplain at Pine Rest Hospital in Grand Rapids after Iowa City (from 1970-84) ; p18-22 This is another one of those Norman Rockwell-style paintings that I love.. here’s Jim-dad using his “new electric knife” to cut the the Christmas turkey in 1967 … so this is December of ’67 … I was about 11 months old…one more month to my first birthday …you see sis-Julie next to dad, & Linda-mom, and of course Jim’s omnipresent CPE chaplain students ; p23-30 Another great pic… with the Iowa City Kok kids & dad refilling the sandbox ! Nice old car (not so old then), big backyards with no fences; p31 original album page ; p32-33 I managed to pull out a little better visibility in this pic of young Jim-dad with bro-Andy & sis-Julie --- date on the pic says August 1967 (although that’s the developing date) ;p34-36 this pics SAYS IT ALL in terms of the unification of two families. This is the Kok & Timmer families. Remember, My grandpa Rev. Gareth Kok remarried after his first wife died at a young age in Holland, Michigan. He married Ada Van Zee Timmer, also a widow with 5 children of her own (sounds like Brady Bunch, eh ? only bigger, both had 5 children from their first marriage). I will try to name the faces: back row from L to R: Sherwood Kok (with his wife, Ruth, in front of him), then Gary Kok (?) with wife Shirley (definitely) in front of him ? then Bruce Timmer (with wife or wife-to-be Anne next to him ? Bruce & Ann now live in Manhattan Beach, CA and work for Aerospace); in front of Bruce is Kay Kok (apparently not yet married to Barry Bosscher) , in the front row the kids are probably most of Sherwood & Ruth’s (my late Uncle Sherwood became a lieutenant colonel for the US Army; my dad & mom are not shown here, nor are any of the Kok kids; p37-38 Grandpa Gareth Kok & Grandma Ada; p39-41 an old album-tarnished page (some of the blue marker ink used to write captions on some of the pages rubbed off on to the pics)…this is grandpa & grandma with bro-andrew & sis-Julie; p42-45 The Kok Clan in Randolph, Wisconsin … Randolph has important history for the Kok side of the family. I remember visiting an “Uncle Seymour Kok” & great-uncle “Henry Kok” a few times. It’s also a very Dutch area (Christian Reformed) , and even has a “Kok Road” . The town or village attached to Randolph is named Friesland after the Dutch province in the Netherlands)
