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Marietje van de Moosdijk / Verbeek


A few months ago, after I came to work in Den Eerbrand (nursing home), I also met Mrs. Verbeek, as Marietje was naturally called there.

She was a woman who was cheerful, always greeted kindly, looked well-groomed, and was always happy when someone came by. it took me a while to notice that the image was a little too rosy. Sure, she was friendly and cheerful and loved to dance along and she walked like a lapwing, but her memory wasn't as great as the facade she held up.

Marietje was very good at making people feel special: "Well, how nice that you come by ...". That was a kind of gift, but not only in recent times. That had to do with the kind of woman she had been all her life, namely someone who loved life, who loved hanging out with other people, but who also wanted to look well-groomed. Who liked to have a presence outside. The social aspect of life played an important role. When you were still living at home as children, it was often the sweet idea there. The house was always full of your friends. Everything was possible and much was allowed.

And if that was the case at home, it was much more at the campsite. In that respect, the campsite has played a very important role in her and your life. "De Rooye Asch" in Handel was not yet managed by you, but that was close. Until the carnival club on the campsite, you were there. With the whole family, and all year round.

In addition, Marietje also went to Gran Canaria with her sister and friends for many years in January. She also enjoyed that very much. The first time she went flying she did not sleep 6 weeks in advance. but from then, about 1975 to about 1985, that was a sting.

Then she stopped doing it ... then a lot changed for her anyway. In 1984 her husband, Nico passed away, and that was a great blow to her. The first 2 years after his death she was angry, she has never really become the old one since then. Nico had always been the one who arranged everything, she herself could not drive a car, Hans was the last to leave the house, there was less traffic ... she fell into a hole.

You have had quite a few concerns during that period: would still be fine with our mom. On the one hand, you can say that she scribbled on top of it again, on the other hand, her life's pleasure had since faded away.

She had a lot of fun in the babysitting. Because she had her hands free, making her a babysitting grandmother before the word was invented. She has always enjoyed her grandchildren. So she became a widow early, but she was also married young.

In the years after the war, Nico was a Marine in the army. Marietje had attended textile school and in her early years working at the cigar factory of Mignot & De Block. I don't know if she got her lifelong love for smoking from that, but that was something that was characteristic of her. Anyway, they met and got married in December 1949. In the early years of their marriage, after the eldest two, Cor and Antoinette were born, Marietje was forced to stay in the sanatorium for a year and a half. Cor went to grandma, and Antoinette stayed with acquaintances. After that, Hans and Nicky followed. Marietje's necessity was: the proper education of the children. And Sat tried to do that consistently. Although she might get easier along the way.

The youngest two have even had the last few weeks when she deteriorated physically, she maintained that she was fine, that she was not in pain, and that she loved you to come over.

What remains is the memory of a woman who tried to enjoy life while doing the right thing for others. Her smile, her open, happy gaze remains on our minds, and we continue to love her for who she was and everything she has done for us.

Marietje… .. thank you for everything…

Marietje van de Moosdijk / Verbeek

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