Found Father–in–law's Girl at Café H. Albers Altena in Groesbeek, Netherlands

 In a previous post (see link below this post) I mentioned that my Father–in–law told my husband Pieter when he was a young boy, about a beautiful dark–haired girl at the Café in Groesbeek, The Netherlands.

Just today, I received an email with this photo, from Gerrie G. Driessen chairman from Heemkundekring Groesbeek (←click link) with a reply to my April 8, request for information.

The name of the H. Albers Café Boerderij (Farmstead) Altena in Groesbeek, right on the border with Germany, is where Pieter's Dad was seated.

But wait a minute...

The gentleman seated to the right of the door in the above picture, next to the waiter, drew my attention!

It was once more that I spotted my Father–in–law, now seated with a glass of red wine in his hand.

There is a bottle of red wine visible on the table to the right.

But on his left (for the viewer) is the beautiful dark–haired girl he talked about!

The very same tablecloth is on the table as in my post below.

Stories are coming to life!

Guess he met her there, while being a Border Guard.

We still don't know when exactly during WWI he served.

Sadly this very building got destroyed during WWII (1944–1945) by shells.

Grateful to Gerrie Driessen the amateur historian ←click link.

This morning I had a reply from Archief Well and Marleen Timmermans sent me an image of the location of Café Altena, right on the border with Germany (red markings).

As she wrote: the Internet has many advantages, you can see that again.

For us it sure has and we manage to meet the kindest people!

Related links:

Found Father–in–law's Picture as a Dutch Border Guard in 1918 | previous post by me and now we know that picture was in front of the very same Café...

My Pieter Turned 93

 Yes, today is a very special day as my Pieter turned 93!

Thanks to a great Cardiologist and complete change of medications he lived beyond the grave message we received from our previous cardiologist; who actually neglected him.

Prayers also DO help!

Just to show you our ABUNDANCE of fresh flowers back then...

All varieties of Calla lilies and sweet smelling white Lathyrus.

I used all kind of Baccarat crystal vases for them, also Baccarat perfume bottles.

Below is a 1:33 minute short video from our vases with garden flowers on Pieter's 74th Birthday.

At 0:46 you see our white fragrant peonies.Immediately followed by pink roses in my Rose China with sprigs of Forget–Me–Not.A DREAM! We have no roses left, and if you see how many we had back then...Guess the competition of the now huge oak trees and others is way too fierce.And we miss the spent mushroom compost already for two decades!That was the very best from mushroom cultivation.

A Happy Pieter on his 81st Birthday on Dutch Queen's Day celebration in Atlanta.

This was good 4 months before his heart attack and open heart surgery on September 3. 2010.

Wearing my Escada suit that we saw while in Budapest but could not afford it then, at full boutique price.

Found it later on eBay.

Around Pieter's Birthday, our Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold is at its BEST.

One of our Palm Trees is right in front of it in this photo.

Sadly today was the funeral of the late Georgia Congressman, the Honorable J. Roy Rowland who had a special U.S. flag flown over the U.S. Capitol for both of us on December 30, 1993...

April 23, was Pieter's 29th Birthday as a United States Citizen!

Post shared on FB Page

Shared also on my FB...Pieter had a very special and happy Birthday!

Related link:Our Garden at the Time we had Access to Spent Mushroom Compost | previous post by me with video from Middle Georgia Magazine{1993 Today, the American Flag was flown for both of us...} | previous post by me 

Pieter playing THEME 7th symphony 2nd movement by Ludwig van Beethoven

 Another of my fond memories of Pieter J.C. Vedder playing his organ... 

As an amateur, without a single lesson ever! 

Pieter was very happy on Thursday, July 25, 1999 and played the organ.Next day, we both drove to Atlanta airport, for picking up my youngest brother Jan Van den Munckhof and his wife Wilma...
Pieter started practicing on the organ again last year, after having had topical surgery on his right hand's ring finger at Ortho Georgia in Macon.

Day after surgery, looking bruised and blue... You can still see where they went inside for doing the topical surgery.

No anesthesia... just an injection and it did not prevent him from feeling the pain.

Yes, his ring has been cut... when he needed open heart surgery they tried to remove it and started cutting it! No success and now it is damaged but still cannot be taken off.

For several hours each day, Pieter had to wear this splint.

It worked out well and his finger moved again!

So... the organ downstairs got visited again.

Pieter had somehow lost the music of THEME 7th symphony 2nd movement by Ludwig van Beethoven but I found it  on line for him and he is happy again.

Our old, Dutch organ, is no longer in the home... it died after over 30 years of activity.

Pieter did once perform some brain surgery on it, by soldering tiny wires on its back board, with the actual builder on the phone. He lived in Florida at that time, during his retirement.

And it worked; Pieter always has been quite a handyman and tackled almost everything himself.