50th Anniversary

My parents' autobiography uploaded on their 50th wedding anniversary as a present by me, their oldest child.

Monday, April 17, 2000

Mum and Dad and the family in New Zealand

My father wrote up the family story in his late seventies. He was not a natural with a computer and would sweat over his word documents. Mum wrote, or narrated, her story, but Dad did the final copy.

I placed the document online as a blog for Mum and Dad's 50th wedding anniversary. There was some sensitivity around this because of the Ottema family war history. Nevertheless, in the interest of my parents' descendants, I felt that it is important to make our family story available. The Second World War happened almost a century ago. 

In 2017 Coen Cornilessen wrote a book, De Ottema's that told the whole story and placed it in a sympathetic historical context.



In 2018, I edited Dad's writing a little. I have decided to continue Mum and Dad's story from where it left off . . . one day.

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