Opa’s last happy birthday message

January 21, 2007
By John Koetsier

Teresa’s grandfather’s last message … we left it on our answering machine for almost two years, until I recorded it onto my computer.

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opa1.jpgTeresa’s Opa (Rienk Koat) died in 2005. Here’s one of the pictures we have of him in our kitchen.

He died less than a month after leaving this message. Growing up is hard to do, sometimes.

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Posting this made me think of something I wrote about Corrie Koat, his wife, and Teresa’s Oma.

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