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Hank OpdenDries
Currently, Hank OpdenDries, at ninety years of age, continues to live at home on their farm with his wife of sixty-three years and the support of loving family. These memoirs have ...view moreCurrently, Hank OpdenDries, at ninety years of age, continues to live at home on their farm with his wife of sixty-three years and the support of loving family. These memoirs have been written to capture the lives and faith of ordinary people who faced generations of change, turmoil, and suffering, and ever strengthening in peace, hope, and love.
Our writer, with little education as a child in Holland, has spent his lifetime continuing to gain knowledge, education, spiritual growth, and various skills in order to support his family. Hank is an accomplished bricklayer, auto body mechanic, dairy farmer, painter, and most of all, husband and father.
His journey will take you from their homeland in Holland in a time of horse and buggy or bicycles to a world ravaged by World War II, bombs, and devastating losses. Canadian immigration with his parents and nine siblings saw Hank working in the sugar beets in Southern Alberta, along with many other immigrants, and finally settling in Central Alberta. These ordinary people took everything they had experienced and suffered, and put their hearts, faith, and hope into developing a foundation for homes, schools, and churches. Hank has injected some personal opinion on the different impacts and impressions from his lifetime. While doing so only proves his passion for creating a record of the ordinary immigrant as seen through one man’s eyes and walking step forward at a time. No two footprints will ever leave the same impression, however; each man’s footprint has its own story to tell in our journey of life.view less