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Personal data Grietje van Kooten 

• Also known as Greta van Kooten.
• She was born on January 1, 1924 in Dijkmanshuizen (Texel).

  Zij is geboren on 10.30u; aangifte geb op 2 jan 1924 door de vader; getuigen bij de aangifte: Michiel Schoenmaker, 68 jaar, werkman en Pieter de Graaf, 41 jaar, gemeentebode; beiden wonende op Texel

• Profession: kraamverzorgster (1945).
• Properties:
• geboorteakte; huwelijksakte.
• foto's.
• She died on November 14, 2011 in Outlook Gardens Hostel, Dandenong, Victoria, Australië, she was 87 years old.
• She is buried on November 18, 2011 in Bunurong Mermorial Park, Dandenong, Victoria, Australië.
• A child of Laurens van Kooten and Johanna Bas
• This information was last updated on May 13, 2018.

Household of Grietje van Kooten

She is married to Gerrit Koolstra.

Their notice of marriage was on between October 6, 1945 and October 12, 1945 in Texel.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. (Not public)

Notes about Grietje van Kooten

Zij is op 27 mrt 1924 van Texel vertrokken naar Haarlemmermeer.

Uit het huwelijk met Gerrit Koolstra zijn 3 kinderen geboren:
1. Johanna Koolstra, geb De Koog (Texel) 15 mei 1946; zij huwt Mount Evelyn Reformed Church, Mount Evelyn, Victoria, Australië 1 mei 1965 met Evert Linde
Uit dit huwelijk:
a. Deanne Tracy Linde, geb Lilydale Private Hospital, Lilydale, Victoria, Australië 2 apr 1967; zij huwt Torquay, Victoria, Australië 12 nov 1995 met Paul Anthony Conway, geb Melbourne, Victoria, Australië 6 juli 1965; 2 kinderen
b. Adam Richard Linde, geb Angliss Hospital, Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australië 13 mrt 1975; hij huwt Wales, Engeland 15 aug 1998 met Heidi Lee Davies, geb Wales, Engeland 13 juli 1965; 2 kinderen
2. Bernhard (Bernie) Sytse Koolstra, geb Romsey, Victoria, Australië 7 okt 1951; hij huwt East Bentleigh, Victoria, Australië 26 sep 1970 met Marilyn Elaine Tunne, geb East Bentleigh, Victoria, Australië 14 nov 1951; zij huwt 2e met Eric Robertson (zie aparte note).
Uit dit huwelijk:
a. Martin Christopher Koolstra, geb Caulfield, Victoria, Australië 4 feb 1971; hij huwt Dalesford, Victoria, Australië 27 jan 2001 met Karen Julie Noye
b. Rachel Melany Koolstra, geb Caulfield, Victoria, Australië 9 juni 1974; zij huwt Dalesford, Victoria, Australié 30 aug 2003 met Jeremy Michael Marsden
c. Clara Koolstra, geb Caulfield, Victoria, Australië 12 okt 1975, overl Caulfield, Victoria, Australië 12 okt 1975
d. Jonathan Mark Koolstra, geb Moorabbin, Victoria, Australië 12 sep 1976; hij huwt East Bentleigh, Victoria, Australië 23 feb 2007 met Christiana Fitzgerald
e. David Steven Koolstra, geb Moorabbin, Victoria, Australië 18 juni 1981; hij huwt Gum Gully Farm, Silvan, Victoria, Australië 11 jan 2008 met Hildery Smith
3. Raymond (Ray) Lauwrens Koolstra, geb Lancefeild, Victoria, Australië 1 mrt 1954 (hij is de bron van de gegevens van de familie Van Kooten); zijn broeder huwt met Kathleen Penelope Rayson.
Bron: Ray Koolstra, Aaustralië

Eric Robertson:
Human remains found near Allsop Lake in the High Uinta Mountains
PARK CITY - A fragment of cloth, faded by five years of exposure to sun and snow, proved the critical clue in ending a missing hiker mystery <https://www.ksl.com/?sid=41193325&nid=148&title=human-remains-located-in-uintas-believed-to-be-hiker-missing-since-2011> in the High Uintas Wilderness last week.
The bundled tent, partially buried beneath a boulder above a remote mountain lake, caught the eye of Kelvin Judd. He, his brother Kimball and father Mark were trying to find a way up to the saddle between Allsop Lake and Dead Horse Lake on Aug. 18 when they spotted the unlikely item amid a boulder field.
“I got my binoculars out and started looking around and there were other things that turned out to be his belongings kind of scattered from the ledge to his backpack. His backpack was the lowest article we found,” Judd said.
The other items included trekking poles and a hiking boot. All of the detritus sat out in the open, minuscule amid a sea of loose rock, invisible except for from above.
The boot, they soon realized, contained bone fragments
“It was kind of meant to be. I don't think it was a coincidence,” Judd said. “If we'd have been 10 or 20 feet more or less a different direction and hadn't happened to look down, we'd have probably walked right past some of the stuff.”
Judd lives in Pleasant View but grew up in Coalville and has spent much of his life in the Uinta Mountains. He was on a family outing to the scenic lake, which sits at the headwaters of the East Fork Bear River, when he made the unlikely discovery.
The afternoon sun was starting to dip low on the horizon as the father and sons picked their way across the uneven ground, looking for clues as to the deceased hiker's identity. Inside his heavy pack they found a sealed, bear-resistant can containing enough food to last several days.
“We saw the Australian flag sticker on his canister of food,” Judd said.
They also saw an ID card bearing the name Eric Robinson.

The search for Eric Robinson
Robinson, 64, had set out alone on July 28, 2011, from the Chepeta Lake Trailhead northwest of Vernal with the intent of covering more than 60 miles of the Uinta Highline Trail. The strenuous trail runs east to west, generally following the crest of the range along its southern edge. Its western terminus sits on the Mirror Lake Highway at the Highline Trailhead northeast of Kamas.
An intensive search <http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705389105/Officials-begin-5th-day-of-searching-for-overdue-Australian-hiker.html?pg=all> for Robinson launched on Aug. 8, 2011, a day after he failed to arrive in the Mirror Lake area as planned. The effort focused around the Yellowstone Basin in Duchesne County, because a group of Boy Scouts had reported speaking with Robinson there on Aug. 2.
The Scouts told investigators he seemed to have made a navigational error, as he was a few miles to the south of the Highline Trail when they encountered him. Professional searchers and volunteers poured over the area, generating news coverage in both Utah and in Australia.
Robinson, an engineer by trade, was fastidious about his planning and packing.
“He was a minimalist person but not a minimalist on safety,” Robinson's wife, Marilyn Koolstra, said.
She came to Utah during the search effort and visited the high mountain basins, seeing the barren alpine tundra for herself. A helicopter carried her up above the tree line, where patches of snow were still present.
“There had been severe storms up in the mountains around the beginning of August and that was something that had crossed our minds, a lot of water or perhaps a lightning strike,” Koolstra said.
The family also worried Robinson might have been attacked by a bear.
“We had some piece of mind in that Eric carried and EPIRB (emergency position indicating radio beacon) and he would have set that off if he were able.”
There were no tell-tale bleeps from the radio beacon. As the search dragged on <http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700172830/Search-called-off-for-missing-Australian-hiker.html?pg=all>, the Duchense County Sheriff's Office warned Robinson's wife, son, four step-children and 11 grandchildren they might never find him.
“When we returned from the search, in my mind I wrote my own last chapter of what could have happened,” Koolstra said. “That was the way I gave closure to something that could hang without any resolution.”

Trying to positively identify the remains
Dan Ransom arose the morning of Friday, Aug. 19 expecting to spend the day the same way he had the one prior.
He and his party were in the middle of an ambitious hike that in some ways mirrored the Highline Trail. Only, while the Highline stays mostly to the south of the Uinta crest on a maintained path, Ransom's path involved off-trail route finding along the north slope.
Morning light filtered through the pines when Mark Judd walked into Ransom's camp. The backpackers were sipping their morning coffee and preparing for a long, physically strenuous day. In a low voice, Judd explained what he and his sons had found the previous afternoon.
“He mentioned that they'd recovered an ID,” Ransom said. “My first thought was 'is it the gentleman from Australia?'”
Judd confirmed the name on the card matched the one in Ransom's mind: Eric Robinson.
“I'd remembered a lot of details from the original search and rescue,” Ransom said.
The two groups gathered to share information. Ransom told the Judds about Robinson's story. He also offered to use his personal locator beacon to send word to the authorities.
Once that was done, Ransom and his party faced a decision. Should they continue on with their hike, or remain in the Allsop Lake area to offer assistance? They opted to stick around while search and rescuers ferried into the basin by helicopter.
“It was very somber obviously,” Ransom said. “We were just kind of waiting.”
The Duchesne County Sheriff's Office had led the original search for Robinson, because the location where he'd last been reported fell within Duchesne County's boundaries; however, the pack and remains had come to rest a few hundred yards over an invisible line within Summit County.
There, he would have faced a daunting climb
“You really don't have a tricky-looking pass until Dead Horse,” Ransom said.
The Highline Trail carves an exposed and unlikely route up and over the Uinta headwall at Dead Horse Pass. Snow fields can cover the trail well into summer, especially following heavy winters. The winter of 2010-2011 was just such a season.
In that case, a hiker might mistake Allsop Pass as the proper route. The navigational situation could also have been complicated by the fact the Uintas run east to west, while many other mountain ranges tend north to south.
However, it's possible Robinson could have decided Dead Horse Pass was simply too unsafe given the existing conditions. In that case, he might have left the Highline Trail intentionally.
Relatively few people hike to the top of Allsop Pass, but faint paths do ascend to it from the eastern side. Cairns, stacks of rocks meant to indicate routes, dot the top of the pass.
Those paths do not appear on any trail maps. The U.S. Forest Service does not have a developed trail to the pass and insists the route is not used by the domestic sheep that graze in the West Fork Blacks Fork drainage.
“I have heard of a few adventurous folks that have crossed this pass, but it has never been recommended by the Forest Service as a route to be tried because of its steepness,” Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest Wilderness, Trails and Special Uses Manager Bernard Asay said. “There is no regulation requiring visitors to stay on the system trails, and there are a few who will travel cross-country.”
Whatever the reason, Robinson was one of those few.
“He's not an idiot. This is not a guy that was just incompetent,” Ransom said. “This is a guy that probably knew fairly well what he was doing; he just didn't understand maybe some of the nuances that make the Uintas unique.”
The paths abruptly stop at the pass, at the top of those tall cliffs on the Allsop side. Hikers hoping to descend to Allsop Lake must take one of two risky routes down from the saddle. One descends a steep couloir, or gully, while the other requires traversing north above the cliffs on loose ground to a large scree slope.
Robinson did not appear to have attempted either route. His scattered gear came to rest somewhere between the two, suggesting an unexpected fall or an attempt to descend the cliff faces directly.
One thing all parties involved in the discovery seemed to agree upon was the idea Robinson's fate was not a result of negligence.
“He had recently recreated in the Himalayan Mountains. He was very experienced at hiking in the backcountry and it just seems that a terrible accident took his life,” Detective Sgt. Bridge said.
“When you're a solo hiker, there's an element of risk,” Ransom said. “You're making that decision.”

Robinson's wife grateful for everyone's help
In the week since the discovery, Koolstra had a chance to speak with the Judd family.
“That's such a respectful, caring family who had the same kinds of passions and appreciation of the wilderness and remote places,” Koolstra said.
She also shared similar sentiments for the sheriff's deputies who kept hope alive for five long years.
“I can only express my gratitude to them for everything that they have done. The way that they have conducted themselves and the way they have responded and kept me informed, I'd just like to say thank you.”
Bron: Ray Koolstra. Australië

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