Welcome To Our Family
Welcome To Our Family
This page is about my Father, Pieter Andringa Jr who was born in Amsterdam,The Netherlands, on the 17th of July 1922. Son of Pieter Andrings Sr and Wilhemina Everdina Wakker.
A Carpenter by trade he made his career by joining the construction company Ballast Nedam Group with his most notable project, the Saudi Bahrain Causeway, now known as the King Fahd Causeway linking the State of Bahrain to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In 1975 work takes my father, and subsequently my family to Khamis Mushayt in Saudi Arabia for an initial 2 two year contract to build military accomodation on the King Faisal Airbase. The 2 years turned out to become 12 years living and working in the Middle East before retiring and settling in Schoten in Belgium in 1987.
oes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do.
With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
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