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Tombstone Tuesday: Cooiman

Tombstone Tuesday: Cooiman

Here rests our dear wife and mother Hendrika C. Cooiman. Hendrika Cornelia Cooiman, daughter of Cornelis Cooiman and Aagje Rietveld, was born on 2 June 1886 in Benschop and died on 17 March 1946 in Utrecht. She married Marinus Jan van Genderen, son of Gerard van...
Heus

Heus

Here rests our dear wife and mother, Helena Petr. Heus-Griffioen, born 20 June 1889, died 13 February 1940. And our caring father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Johannes Heus, born 2 October 1887, died 19 December 1974. At the bottom of the stone you can read the...
Tombstone Tuesday

Tombstone Tuesday

Today’s tombstone, in the Bosdrift cemetery in Hilversum, is selected for the beautiful relief. According to the text on the relief, it is depicting the epitaph Matthew 11:26: “Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you...
Tombstone Tuesday in Hilversum

Tombstone Tuesday in Hilversum

Arkes-Leuftink tombstone, Bosdrift cemetery, Hilversum. Translation of the inscription: Here rests Anna Leuftink, born 7 January 1853, died 11 January 1924. Miena Arkes-Leuftink, born 18 May 1864, died 8 January 1951. Ps. 23. Anna Geertruida Arkes, born 23 December...