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William J. Koch & Johanna Van Dyke

William J. Koch II (Bill) was born in New Jersey to parents William J. Koch and Sabella Farthing, who were both born in Germany and immigrated to New Jersey sometime in the 1880s or 1890s. Johanna Van Dyke was born in New Jersey to a Dutch family.  Johanna’s father Orie Van Dyke and maternal grandparents Johannes Kornet and Hendrikje van der Heide immigrated from Holland in the 1880s. Bill and Johanna married in 1923 and settled in Midland Park, New Jersey. Together they had two children: Lois and William J. Koch III (Billy). In their later years, Bill and Johanna moved in with their daughter Lois and her family in Ithaca, NY.
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Bertha Kornet with her two eldest daughters Marion (Mamie) and Johanna
Bill
Johanna Van Dyke holding one of her youngest siblings with her mother Bertha Kornet, grandmother Hendrikje Van der Heide, and great grandmother Mericje Opgelder.
Johanna's brother Fritz
Johanna
Lois
Billy
Lois and Billy
Johanna, Lois, and Billy at Bushkill Falls, 1940
The DeKortes Family, Billy, Johanna, Lois, and Bill at Bushkill Falls
Billy, Johanna, Bill's sister Katie?, Lois, Johanna's parents Orie and Bertha, and ?, summer 1942
Billy and Lois
Johanna and Bill
Bertha and Orie, Johanna's parents
Johanna and Bill (left)
Bill, his mother Sabella, and his sister Katie
Lois (left)
Lois
Lois
Bill and Johanna
Johanna
Bill
Lois, Bill, Denise, Johanna, and Bill's mother Sabella

Reinhart Yennie and Ella Clark

Reinhart Yennie and Ella Clark were both born in New Jersey. Reinhard's parents Jacob Yennie and Rosina Schaffner Fritz both immigrated from Switzerland in 1865 and 1885, respectively. Ella's family has been in America for a long time, and different branches of her family include some of the earliest Dutch and English settlers of New York. Reinhart and Ella met, married, and stayed in New Jersey. Together they had two children: Kenneth (Ken) and Donald (Don). During World War II, Ken was in the Army's infantry division and Don was in the Navy, but Don's service was suspended until after the war because he was studying physics and engineering in college.
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Don
Ella Clark, her mother Mary Ester Sayers, and Don
Don
Ken
Don
Don (center)
Don (right) under the Arc de Triomph
Reinhart, Don, Ella
Ella (right) with her son Ken's children, June, Clark, and Karen

Don Yennie and Lois Koch

After Reinhart and Ella's son Don completed his naval service, including two years at Annapolis, he returned to graduate school at Columbia University.  After graduating from high school, Bill and Johanna's daughter Lois worked as a secretary.  Don and Lois had known each other as children, and met again after the war. They married in Midland Park, New Jersey in 1950 and soon relocated to Princeton for Don's post-doc at the university there.  Following his career, they later moved to Stanford, CA, Minneapolis, MN, and Ithaca, NY. Together they had two children: Denise and Scott. 

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Lois and Don
Lois and Don
Don
Don
Don
Don (left)
Lois and Don
Lois (left)
Lois and Don
Denise
Denise
Denise and Lois
Don and Denise
Denise
Don and Denise
Denise and Lois
Denise and Lois
Lois (background), Don and Denise
Denise
Denise
Scott and Don
Denise
Denise and Scott
Bill and Don
Don
Scott
Scott and Bill
Denise
Denise
Denise
Don
Back row: Bill, Ella, Reinhart, and Johanna. Front Row: Don, Lois, Scott, Denise, and Jim Ullrich
Records page from the Sayers Family Bible, beginning 1842.
William Clark and Mary Sayers Marriage Certificate, 1886.
A page from Ken Yennie's War Memoir, 1940s. Find complete memoir under FILES below.

Files

vandyke_koch_archive.zip
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clark_yennie_archive.zip
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koch_yennie_archive.zip
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Ken Yennie's War Memoir
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