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Name: GROOTVELD, Johannes Abraham

Birth Date: 22 Dec 1910 Overischie, Netherlands

Death Date: 3 Oct 1998 The Hague

First Date: 1936

Last Date: 1965

Profession: Managing Director, Twentsche Overseas Trading Co, Mombasa, trading in tea, coffee, timber, hides, skins

Area: Mombasa

Married: In Mombasa Cathedral 1938 Williemien Toppen b. 14 Feb 1909 Appingedam, Neths, d.17 Oct 2000 The Hague

Children: Fenna Jannigje (Kelly) (1939); Marianne (1941-2010 Gasselte); Corrie (1944); Willem (1951)

Book Reference: EAWL, Mrs F. J. Kelly (dau)

General Information:

Longstanding member of Rotary Club.
Lived (when a bachelor) in Palace Hotel, Mombasa; then Cliffe Avenue with family, then Nyali

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