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Personal data Hendrikus Josephus Verberne 

• He was born on April 21, 1921 in Amsterdam.
• He was christened in Pastrycook, Mill Hand, Trades Ass, Rigger.
• He died on January 2, 1991 in Moe, Victoria, Australië, he was 69 years old.
• A child of Hendrikus Johannes Verberne and Johanna Martha Adriana Stroomer
• This information was last updated on March 15, 2006.

Household of Hendrikus Josephus Verberne

He is married to (Not public).

They got married on February 19, 1948 at Amsterdam, he was 26 years old.

Notes about Hendrikus Josephus Verberne

Hendrikus (Harry) was a quiet, even-tempered man. He began his working life with Hille (Biscuit makers) in Zaandam at 14 years of age, and supplemented his education by night-school study in the Pastrycook/baking trade. Eventually he reached the status of "Bedrijfsleider".
Harry and Tilly decided to migrate to Australia and on 28/8/1960, when Harry was 39 the family arrived in Sydney, Australia, to start a new
life. Initially, the family were billeted at Skyfield, a migrant hostel near Windsor, Sydney and Harry began looking for work.
Within six weeks of arrival the family moved to Myrtleford, Victoria, at the suggestion of the Dyt family (Henry & Jenny), who were distant
relatives. He was able to find a job at a local bakery but lack of proficiency with language and difficulty in coping with the heat in the
bakery led him to leave that job. He soon after obtained work at the local Pine Mill. This work was not well paid but he made the best of it.
As the children became older, limited employment opportunities of the Myrtleford district prompted another move, this time to Moe, Victoria.
Another branch of the Dyt family lived there so this gave them another contact point.
Harry found work as a Trades Assistant with the State Electricity Commission, (SEC) and worked there until the higher pay offered by Power Station construction contractors enticed him to work for them.
Eventually the construction work declined and he was fortunately able to return to the SEC, where he remained for the rest of his working life.
He retired from the job of Rigger at 65 years of age and 11 years with the SEC.
His hobbies and interests were not well developed and he had few close friends. He enjoyed making improvements to their house, gradually transforming it over the years to a comfortable, cosy place.
Before retirement, he and Tilly were able to take a trip to Holland in 1974 as the children were basically independent by then.
Towards the end of his working life, the effects of a lifetime of smoking became apparent through a shortness of breath, leading to a gradual inability to be active. He had cut back on smoking but it was basically too late: the damage was done. However, this did not stop he and Tilly enjoying several well-deserved overseas (and within the country) trips.
By 1990 Harry was all but an invalid, increasingly unable to do work around the house. Few in the family were prepared for his sudden death on 2 February, 1991. He and Tilly were scheduled to come to Henry & Joce's house in Churchill for lunch that day. Tilly rang during the morning to say that Harry was unwell and had returned to bed. Later, in the early afternoon she called again to say she had requested an ambulance, such was her concern by then.
The hospital doctors at Moe soon diagnosed an Aneurism as the cause of his symptoms and indicated an emergency operation in Melbourne as his only hope of survival. Arrangements were made to transfer him by Air ambulance but his heart stopped as he was being put on board. It is speculative whether hospital staff took further revival action in view of his age and prognosis.
He (and Tilly) were probably spared the indignities of the inevitable progress of his condition and he undoubtedly suffered for only a relatively short time.

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