Winter fun with friends; Sense and Herman on either side.Friends Herman and Wouter NanningaHelping to move. a wheel barrow is transported by bicycle cart. Herman’s home is the backdrop.Herman is second from the right in the cast portrait for a high school play.Kees on the guitar and Herman on the clarinet.Herman taking part in some wedding ceremony – before Stiny. He did not start dating Stiny till six weeks before the van der Laans emigrated.Herman’s travelling friends on the train from Winschoten to Groningen where they went to teacher’s college.A last friends photo. Herman and Stiny fourth and third from rightA serious portrait of HermanA professional portrait of Stiny made in 1953, possibly for her beau, Herman, to be sent by mail.Herman’s permission to emigrate on September 29, 1953. Destination; the Boot residence, 33 Lock Street, Port Dalhousie. Ontario.Stiny and Herman on a dateHerman and friend testing Great Lakes water.Herman and Stan standing in Canadian sun.Herman driving down Lock Street and Port DalhousieA gathering of Dutch Canadian young people, Stiny and Herman (with bow tie) on the right.Herman and Stiny reunited at the van der Laan residence in AylmerGathering outside of the Aylmer Christian Reformed ChurchHerman and Stiny descend the side stairs of London First Christian Reformed Church, August 13, 1955 on a rainy day.An early visit by Herman, Truus and Sense’s mother WineHerman with his sons Wayne and Henry at their Brock Street home in GoderichHerman smilingHerman is amusedHerman’s act at Henry & Wendy’s weddingHenry and Herman and HinneHerman at a birthday party, months before his death
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