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On a sunny Friday [1] on June 28, 1929 Jacobus Henricus (Koos) Goossens was born [2] in Wellerlooi (Noord-Limburgs: De Loj) a church village in the north of the Dutch province of Limburg, near the slightly larger town of Bergen. [3] Son of the farmer Johannus Hendrikus (Harry) Goossens (1884 - 1960) and Antonia Elisabeth Vullings (1888 - 1962).
Historical context
The family moved on October 30, 1937 to Vierlingsbeek, Noord-Brabant, Netherland (adress: Staaiweg A30), near the border river Meuse with Limburg.[4]
In September 1944, Vierlingsbeek is on the front line of the battle for Overloon. The village gets a hard time. Residents must leave their homes and the village is largely laid in the ashes. The castle De Hattert is razed to the ground and the church is also destroyed, together with almost a third of all houses.
After the war, Koos studied at the Pedagogical Academy (Bisschoppelijke Kweekschool). The students were required internally; only in the holiday periods one could go home. Walking was the only form of extracurricular activity. On Wednesday a small one and on Saturday a big walk: in rows of three and under the supervision of two or three invigilators. My father did not like the strict regime at all. Nevertheless, he has stuck to it for another year for the master's degree.
The first 60s were rather busy for Koos. In a period that he started a family and a school for hearing-impaired children, he also took courses in Utrecht and did an internship at the Institute for the Deaf in St. Michielsgestel, at the School for Hearing Impaired in Eindhoven and at the Audiology Center of St. Radboud hospital in Nijmegen. First for speech therapy (Dutch: Logopedie) and then for acoustics (Dutch: Akoepedie).
After obtaining his certificate as a teacher, he started working in Haarle, St. Odilienberg, Vlodrop and Maastricht. In Vlodrop he met his future wife.
He married Agnes Gerarda Theresia Beckers in Gulpen (civil) op September 13, 1954 and (church) on a nice warm day, August 6, 1955. [5] Lived for a year with the parents in law in Gulpen, Limburg, Netherlands (address: Prof. Cobbehagenstraat 5).
The couple moved in 1956 to Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands (address: Fatimaplein 63), where both sons are born.
Children
In 1959 Koos was appointed headmaster of a school for hearing-impaired children in Heerlen. The housing shortage was still acute since the end of World War II and finding suitable living space a challenge. In June 1962 the family moved to the Voerendaal (address: Mirbachstraat 18), a village near the town of Heerlen. On the location of the new house, the cows of Farmer Vorage grazed a year earlier and there were long rows of plum trees.
The Mirbachstraat became more and more inhabited and family Goossens became acquainted with the neighbors, the Francken family. They had moved from Schaesberg (van 'd' 'r Sjeet).
Although the wind often came from the right direction, Voerendaal also suffered from the smoke and the dirty coal mine dust from the Oranje Nassau II. There was no brushing, scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, mopping or washing on mine dust. It came back everywhere and always. Exposure to coal mine dust was obviously not good for health.
In 1959 Koos was commissioned to set up the first (and only) Limburg school hearing-impaired children in Heerlen. This assignment was - in addition to care for all sorts of material things - to teach children, recruit personnel, educate teachers for their specific task and to consult the municipality, the province and many other bodies. [6]
In the fifties the housing of schools wasn’t that well organised. Mgr. Hanssenschool started in two classrooms, which became available at an old primary school at the Meezenbroekerweg in Heerlen. The number of pupils grew rapidly, because the education of hearing-impaired children at that time was a new form of education. It was not easy to get a new or different accommodation. The need was so high that Koos and few teachers in 1968 squatted an unoccupied school at the Ruys de Beerenbroucklaan. Still, the school was not satisfied with that solution and began to make plans for a new school, together with the school board, the municipality and the K.N.O. doctor dr. Lubbers. The eye had fallen on a wasteland in Hoensbroek near the audiological centre. With a better (central) location for most pupils.[7] and repeated visits of destructive thieves, a new accommodation for the school was needed.
In the early seventies the building on the Meezenbroekerweg no longer meets the requirements. Due to a fire [8] and repeated visits of destructive thieves, a new accommodation for the school was needed.
In June 1974 Koos was finally informed by the minister of education (Kemenade) that a declaration of urgency had been issued and he could start building plans. Koos was obviously very happy. [9]
In 1975 a start was made on teaching children with language and speech disorders, a department that grew rapidly. The Ambulante Begeleiding department also grew hard and needed more space.[10]
In November 1976 the local newspapers reports that the school received from a regional soft drink company a donation of 20 thousand guilders [11] and Koos and H. Lubbers (K.N.O. doctor) struck the first spade for the new building at the Zandbergseweg in Hoensbroek, near the revalidation center. [12]
On Friday, September 30, 1977, a memorial stone was unveiled. Koos told in his speech, that hearing and speech-impaired children who are at their school from their third year, should in principle be able to follow standard secondary education by the age of 13 or 14: "They must be back in normal life as soon as possible". [13]
On Saturday 11 November 1978 the new complex in Hoensbroek was officially opened by A. J. Hermes (State Secretary for Education). [14]
In 1989, at the age of nearly sixty, Koos used the VUT and took early retirement. There was a farewell party for the children, [15] the staff and a final farewell party for family and external guests. At this final farewell Koos received the decorations from mayor Piet Van Zeil, belonging to his appointment as knight in the Order of Orange Nassau. [16]
On a gray and very cold day [17] Koos passed away in the presence of his wife and both sons in the afternoon of 18 March, 2001 in the hospital of Heerlen. [18] He was buried in Voerendaal [19]
Time line
Grave Koos and Maus Goossens |
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Connected with
Documents
Bevolkingsregister Venray 1932-1940 |
Limburgd Dagblag 28-3-1972 |
Limburgs Dagblad 26-6-1974 |
Limburg Dagblad 2-4-1977 |
Dagblad Oostelijk Zuidlimburg 23-11-1976 |
Dagblad Oostelijk Zuidlimburg 27-11-1976 |
Limburgs Dagblad 1-10-1977 |
Limburgs Dagblad 5=10-1978 |
Limburgs Dagblag 17-6-1989 |
Limburg Dagblad 24-6-1989 |
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