Marriage and Family
The Oxford Group was a lifelong source of inspiration to him and his wife. On 4 July 1929 in The Hague, he married Sylvia, Jonkheerin van Lennep (The Hague, 16 December 1905 – Eindhoven, 29 August 1992), daughter of ..., Jonkheer van Lennep (Wiesbaden, 3 October 1876 – The Hague, 13 September 1951), and wife Digna Jacoba Mijer (b. Batavia, 28 March 1883). The couple had seven children: Digna (b. 14 September 1930), Anton Frederik (b. 12 March 1932), Anne Jetje (Annejet) (b. 14 October 1933), Sylvia (b. 6 December 1936), Warner, Frits (who married and had Warner (b. 3 October 1969) and Frits) and Maria.
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Famous quotes containing the words marriage and/or family:
“For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“English people apparently queue up as a sort of hobby. A family man might pass a mild autumn evening by taking the wife and kids to stand in the cinema queue for a while and then leading them over for a few minutes in the sweetshop queue and then, as a special treat for the kids, saying “Perhaps we’ve time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.””
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)