Petronella by Kobe

Petronella Maria Geraets was born on 31st October in 1937. She was my Grandma on my dad's side. I met her a couple of times.

Petronella had five siblings, there were two brothers and three sisters Petronella went to a school and the school was in her village and it was called Neer. When she grew up she became a midwife, a midwife helps pregnant people and with their babies. She did this for 8 years.

Petronella and Wim got married 21st June of 1965. After for a while, they moved to New Zealand in 1968 with her husband. Wim, my opa, had two brothers. Petronella and Wim owned a dairy farm and they would have cows, and milk the cows and all that. The place it was called Tokoroa and they were there for five years and then they had a dairy farm in Morrinsville and they would milk the cows too.

My dad was born in 1972 and then my dad had to do the lawns to cut the grass. My dad had siblings Louis, Cornelius. They would milk the cows too but they had a huge land, the bad thing is the grass is super tall and Wim had to mow the grass and then my dad had to do the lawns to cut the grass.

My Grandma has since passed away. I only met her a few times when I was young. I remember playing pool with her I got to use my hands, we used to all meet up at Christmas, we did a big dinner.