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Boyden Weekly Chronology Lists Local Names and Events
A June 1944 Boyden chronology lists residents and guests by date. Entries include births, visits, missionary news, dinner hosts, travel for schooling, military drafts, and service departures with multiple local family names such as Dykstra Vander Marten Heitritter Meygners Rhode Horn Kruse Egdorf Haspels Van den Bosch Blumeyer Van Houte Horn Kleyn Vander Lee Steuven Stientjes Vander Wilt Diekevers Smit Van der Schoor Tre Paske De Valois and service members Van De Hoef Kuyper Smith Scholten Boender Roetmano.
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Frank Dykstra
Frank Vander Marten
William Heitritter
Henry Meygners
Henry P. Rhode
Print Horn
Eunice Kruse
Ernest Egdorf
Connie Haspels
Henry van den Bosch
Donald Blumeyer
Jake van Houte
Geo. H. Horn
Richard Kleyn
Myron Vander Lee
C. W. Steuven
Morel Stientjes
ARMY
Richard P. van de Hoef
Boyden
Robert R. Kuyper
NAVY
Roger Smith
Gerhard W. Scholten
Claude Boender
Hospers
Lammert J. Roetmano