Betsy Van Halsema DeKorne

What can I say? To know her was to love her. It was really that simple.  Tell Uncle Jack we miss him and his tales of derring-do!

1929  l-r: Willemina, Betsy, Dick, Gerard, Bernice

Sept 1944 Nellie and 5 daughters standing under oak tree back yard 219 Myrtle: L-R Bernice, Betsy, Nellie, Helen, Willemina, Marian

Sept 1944 Bernice (left) and Betsy on ferry  to NYC, starting out for Calvin College (Betsy senior, Bernice freshman)

Sept 1944 Bernice and Betsy at Grand Central Station NYC

July 2001 Overview, MI  three Van Halsema sisters, Betsy, Bernice and Marian

Still missed after all these years

Denny Nicola, class of 1965, Champaign High School. Killed in Vietnam 1967. Information. A good friend I turned around one day and realized he was gone before I made my way "down south."

Below: Ronny Lovellette. Class of 1966, Champaign High School. Killed in Vietnam 1969. Information. Do you remember that our last night together in Chicago before you headed off to the Army and I left for the Marines? I certainly do. The last time I saw you. But it was a wild night, eh Ronny?