KOK FAMILY ALBUM 6, pages 28-31, 63 pages

KOK FAMILY ALBUM 6, pages 28-31, 63 pages (FAM6 28-31, 63p)

FAM6 28-31 P1 ORIGINAL album page; 2-7 that’s linda-mom & jim-dad with baby Andrew & sis-Jul, probably Iowa city, mid-60’s; p8-11 is this the Christian Reformed Church in Iowa City where dad worked ? his first church pastor job. ; p12-15 “kok tribes” iowa city.. looks like my late Uncle Sherwood & his wife Ruth & their young kids as well as Grandpa Kok, my linda-mom, & some of the Kok kids, mid 60’s; p16 original album page; p17-21 “our 1965 swimers’ ……I think this refers to a summer missions group which they called “swim” in the Christian Reformed Church (CRC)..not sure who all the people are..but definitely dad-Jim on the far right holding the baby…& it almost looks like a young Eugene & Darlene Rubingh on my dad’s right (picture left) , It also looks like Aunt Diana on the far left … but I’m just guessing, could be wrong; p21-24 “my class” refers to linda-mom’s classroom…maybe her Sunday school kids or did they teach kids during “swim”? She also was a regular teacher for a while around Ann Arbor…. P25-27 one of the other classes ? or still my mom’s class ? looks like a different teacher or adult in the background. P28-29 “snack time” speaks for itself; p30 “gerald’s class”; p31 original album page; p32-34 nice pic of linda-mom with Julie ? and one of mom’s friends with her kids in the snow., presumably iowa city; p35-37 linda mom with two friends; p38-39 “we had a Christmas open house for church people, 1964” says the caption … lots of people there… ha ha. ; p40-43 apparently this is our house on MEADOW street in Iowa City, where I was born; p44 original album page; p45-53 great pics of linda-mom & jim-dad by a lake with baby Julie .. is mom going to throw a naked baby Julie into the water ? just kidding (or can’t you joke about those things anymore these days?. There’s dad on the diving board. P54-56 Sept 2, 1963 Jim-dad & mom with baby Julie p57-59 a loving father with his first child; p60-63 mom & dad not newlyweds anymore but  new parents now… having a fun time on the canoe ; 

KOK FAMILY ALBUM 6, p32-34

KOK FAMILY ALBUM 6, p32-34, 78 pages (FAM6, 32-34,78p)

P1 original album page; p2-10 this is my Uncle Gary (the youngest of the Kok boys and who I remember from growing up in Grand Rapids…we often socialized with Gary & his wife Shirley and their two kids, brian & audra… brian was my age ..we also took several summer vacations with them, camping out west, and we co-owned a cottage on lake Michigan for a few years) and Aunt Shirley at their wedding, probably in grand rapids. I think Shirley was from New Jersey, but the two of them met at Calvin College; p11-13 this is my dad, Jim, with baby Julie ? in Hanford, California in 1964 where my grandfather Rev Gareth Kok was a pastor later in life (after Bellflower, Holland, Edgerton, Hills, et.al)  p14-18, sept 2, 1963 …day after Jim’s ordination into the CRC…with his dad, Gareth, also an ordained CRC pastor; p19 original album page; p20-47 mom’s 4^th grade class (that she taught) in Livonia, Michigan (near Ann Arbor) while Jim was doing CPE at University of Michigan hospital (I went a little crazy on the pics of mom, experimenting with the different functions on my photo editor…kind of psychedelic) ; p38-39 this may be the hospital where dad worked in Ann Arbor, or is it their apartment building? ;p40-49 well, this is definitely the hospital, so the previous must be their apartment building;  p50-52 “shower gifts from Jim’s hospital friends; p53 original album page; p54-71 this is the land in Newaygo, Michigan, that my dad bought with his friend Tony Diekema …they planned to plant Christmas Trees and sell them…and they actually did clear the land & plant the seeds or saplings, but apparently never followed up on harvesting them … Tony went on to become president of Calvin College, my dad went into ministry .. and they still own the land as of October 2011 .. I went there a few times with my dad and later with a few highschool friends  even built a teepee there one time with dave dejong & rick byle and slept there overnight (the late rick byle, that is); … lots of trees, very  wooded now..& lots of deer, the people next door even put out salt licks (illegally) on my dad’s land (which I told them to remove one time)…wonder what will become of this land, if anything, some day; p72-77Woody & Ruth family Christmas, 1962 … I’ve mentioned my Uncle Sherwood previously..and ther’s some pics of him as a child with my dad growing up in Bellflower. Sherwood went into the Army after a few years at Calvin College. He rose up thru the ranks to Lieutenant Colonel and served in Vietnam as well as Germany. I think it was hard on him & his family. Sherwood died at a young age, and his son, Gary, as well as daughter, Kathy, also have already passed away. They had a large family including sons Bob, Sherwood Jr., Bill, Gary, & David, as well as daughter, Kathy. We had a few social gatherings with them from time to time. Uncle Sherwood also worked as a Kent County Sheriff deputy for a few years as well as at the county jail after retiring from the army.