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Persoonlijke gegevens Cora Helen Roelofs 

• Zij is geboren op 11 januari 1918 in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten.
• Zij is overleden op 9 januari 2002 in Minnesota, Verenigde Staten, zij was toen 83 jaar oud.
• Zij is begraven in Roselawn Cemetery, Roseville, Ramsey County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten.
• Een kind van Gerrit (George) Roelofs en Neeltje (Nellie) Tromp

Gezin van Cora Helen Roelofs

Zij is getrouwd met Frank Verbrugge.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 27 december 1940, zij was toen 22 jaar oud.

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Notities over Cora Helen Roelofs

Overlijden: https://nl.findagrave.com/memorial/78794551/cora_helen-verbrugge 

Overlijden Obituary: https://archives.calvin.edu/?p=creators/creator&id=444

Name: Cora Helen Roelofs Verbrugge (1918 - 2002)

color: #10375d; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Historical Note:1918 - 09 Jan 2002) was born in Grand Rapids to George (nee Gerrit) Roelofs (1853-1919) and Nellie Tromp (1878-1939). He was a real estate dealer, insurance agent, and editor/publisher of Een Stem des Volks, who had emigrated in 1875.  He and his first wife, Mary Dijkema (1857-1912), had five children.  In 1913 he and Nellie Tromp married and they had two children, Robert (1914-1985) and Nellie.  After George’s death, Nellie married Theodore (nee Tiddo) Wolthorn (1880-1972), whose first wife, Wilhelmina Johnson (1883-1918), had also died.

 

Cora graduated from Grand Rapids Central High School in 1936 and attended Calvin College, there meeting Frank Verbrugge (1913-1985).  The two married in 1940 and in 1946 settled in Northfield,Minnesota, where Frank served on the faculty of Carelton College. In 1956, the family moved to St. Paul when Frank joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota. After helping her husband with his family’s history, Wither Thou Goest: The Life and Story of Jacobus and Maria Verbrugge in Minnesota, she began collecting material about and writing the history of her family, The Life of a Dutch American, George Roelofs, which she finished after Frank died. Frank and Cora had four children—Anne Louise (married Tomas Hughes Martin), Lois Marie (married Elmer Grant Gilbert), Robert Roelofs (married Noreen Elizabeth Hughes), and Martha Helen Verbrugge.