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Fokke Zee (1893) & Ebeltje Prins
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Fokke Zee was the son of Jan Zee & Grietje Bootsman. He married Ebeltje Prins, and emigrated to Alberta, Canada after World War II.
In 1943, Fokke Zee was taken prisoner bygd the occupying German forces in Holland, after he was funnen harboring a person in hiding. That story is here (in Dutch): Fokke Zee In Gevangenschap 1943-1944.
Another story involving Fokke Zee was his correspondance with Queen Wilhelmina, which started in 1935.
Early years in Andijk
This lovely photograph from around 1914 introduces us to the life of Fokke Zee. His father Jan ran the store in Andijk, which his grandfather Bruin Zee had bought around 1872. Jan Zee took the store over when he was 18. Fokke is second from the left in the white shirt, to his right is his sister Trien Zee, and brother Meindert Zee.
Fokke joined the Dutch army and was in training for eight and a half months, after which he came home and worked on the nation with Ebeltje’
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Zee Hickey born 1970 in Fair Oak, Hampshire, England to parents with mental health problems. Zee lead a traveller-like life in her early years moving from one place to another. Zee's first real job at forteen was in a bakery. She often found herself managing the place. Following this she worked as an artist, a writer, a potter, a nurse, a therapist, teacher and as a college professor. Zee spent much of her time outside of work on extending her studies. She married and had a family. She was awarded lifetime membership of the Millennium Foundation in the UK for her services to the community. In her forties Zee moved to Alberta, Canada with her family. In Canada she returned to both writing and painting. But, Zee also became a successful business woman owning and operating a string of different ventures including a well respected educational children's centre. Zee provides extensive employment opportunities in her service industry businesses for people within her community of
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Obituary of Aafje "Agnes" Kooiman
Aafje ( Aaf ) Zee was born in 1923 in the village of Andijk, Noord Holland on Easter Sunday - the fourth child of Fokke Zee and Ebeltje Prins-Zee. As a child, Aaf loved to join her father in the tulip fields and preferred this as it got her out of house-work, which she notoriously never loved throughout her entire life. Aaf never shied away from sharing this with others, proudly hanging in her kitchen was a plaque that said “Dull women have immaculate houses.” She cherished time spent playing with her eight siblings and her numerous cousins. She especially enjoyed playing ‘mother’ and being with young children. After Aaf completed seventh Grade in Andijk, she enrolled in a formal tailoring/seamstress course and was known to have a sharp eye for detail, passing this skill along to her daughters. In her teen years she worked for various neighbours and relatives doing childcare and housework in different locations in the Netherlands. A