Notes for Constance Ann Clark

Notes for Constance Ann Clark

The next day in Cologne we saw the most striking church we had ever seen.
The pictures do not do it justice. You really need to see it to believe
it. We took an English tour and learned all about it. We took a walking
tour and then headed out for The Netherlands?about 2 hours away.

We called our relative Jose? Hendrix-Peeters from a little town to ask
for directions to her house and she said ?Wait right there and I?ll come
and get you?. We were about 10 miles from her town but had taken a
different route than she recommended. Much to our surprise she came
because we were on the other side of a river that had only one way over?a
small ferry?we would have never figured it out! Jose? was delightful.
Our grandfathers, fathers were brothers so we are fairly closely related.
She took us to her Dutch home?a lovely story and ½ that they built about
2 years ago. Prior to that, they lived in her husband?s family?s farm
home. She has 2 sons?the youngest, 25 still lives at home and works at a
vegetable shipping and packaging plant. The oldest works selling farm
fertilizers (I think)?she speaks very good English but jobs are not the
same as here and the translation looses something! Her husband, Huub
drives a truck and delivers peat moss all over Germany. The area is all
farming. We saw the farm where our grandfather?s dad had grown up and
the one she lived on as a child. She also took us to a contemporary
working farm to see how things are done now. It is really interesting.
For those of you who do not know, the barns are attached to the house in
Germany, Austria and Holland. You just walk thru one door into the barn
from the kitchen! After some touring, we had a typical Dutch
dinner?boiled potatoes; fresh cauliflower-boiled, vegetable soup and pork
roast. She had a beautiful dessert ? a type of pie popular there. Jose?
then took us to meet Catherine Hendrix who wrote the family genealogy
book. She is 70 years old?very sharp and spry. Her daughter was there
to interrupt for her since we speak no Dutch and she speaks very little
English. After visiting and looking at the Hendrix-Hendricks Genealogy
info, she served us another Dutch pie and coffee (we were stuffed but
could not refuse). They were delighted to meet us and want any relatives
that can come to do so.

Jose? told us a lot about the Netherlands that we did not know. She is a
teacher in primary school?the first year they come. We toured her
school, built in the round?very modern with lot of wood and very well
built. We spent the night in their home. The next morning she and her
husband took us to see a beautiful German Catholic church in a small
town?10 miles from them and just across the border. In summer they ride
their bikes there on Sunday for mass and then have pastry and coffee in a
cafe near the church. It was a neat town. We bought a hand made Table
cloth and a suit case to carry all our purchases home!!! We loved seeing
how they live. Everyone?old and young ride bikes and walk everywhere.
They are very healthy?no overweight people seen anywhere we went. They
have great social programs and adore their queen! They take a lot of
holidays and love to travel. I hope Jose? will come to the Hendrix
family reunion in Wisconsin on Memorial Day week-end?I hope to go. I
also offered to show her Chicago, St. Louis and Naples if she comes back
to the US. She came here before and went to Ellis Island and said she
cried when she saw how poor and lost the Hendrix?s were when they came
here. She went to DePerre Wisconsin and stayed with relatives of Grandpa
Hendrix?his brother Pete?s family (I think). She also stayed with one of
the children of that family in California?Nicole Hendricks who has now
changed her name to Hendrix. She is a very hip dresser?very European.
We look a lot alike in coloring etc. I will send you a picture of her
and her husband!
Fondly
Connie Horenkamp (Clark)1/4/05

Connie works part-time in Bob's dental office, and volunteers as a Court Appointed Advocate for the Child Protection newtwork. In December 2004, received her 5 year Service Pin --and has worked on the same case for 5 years.us. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930.T626, 2,667 rolls. Grant, Rusk, Wisconsin, ED 10, roll 2611, page , image 40.0.us. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930.T626, 2,667 rolls. Grant, Rusk, Wisconsin, ED 10, roll 2611, page , image 40.0.

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