Koos Goossens
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Koos Goossens

Koos Goossens
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Nederlanders na 1811
Koos Goossens is geboren in Limburg na 1811

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Biography

Birth

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 Netherlands had about 8 million inhabitants
  • 'Queen Wilhelmina' (House of Orange-Nassau) was ruler of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 (also called 'Kingdom of the Netherlands')
  • From 8 March 1926 to 10 August 1929, there was the De Geer I cabinet in the Netherlands with Mr. JJ Jonkheer as prime minister. de Geer (CHU)

Childhood

The family moved on October 30, 1937 to Vierlingsbeek, Noord-Brabant, Netherland (adress: Staaiweg A30), near the border river Meuse with Limburg.[4]

WW2

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.

Education

  • Primary school, Vierlingsbeek, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
  • High school (Mulo), Venray, Limburg, The Netherlands
  • Pedagogical Academy, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
  • Logopedie (speech science)
  • Acoupedics (geluidsleer), Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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).

Beginning of his career

After obtaining his certificate as a teacher, he started working in Haarle, St. Odilienberg, Vlodrop and Maastricht. In Vlodrop he met his future wife.

Marriage

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

  • Paul (1957)
  • Richard (1959)

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.


Profession

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]

Death

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

Age at important events:

  • 2 Sister Maria Johanna (Riet) born (10-03-1932)
  • 8 Moved to Vierlingsbeek (30-10-1937)
  • 10 Brother Hendrikus Maria (Harry) married with Wilhelmina Antonia Maria Oomes (09-05-1940)
  • 20 Sister Anna Helena Goossens (Annie) married Franciscus Josephus (Frans) Bodifée (11-10-1949)
  • 21 Brother Antonius Theodorus (Toon) married with Anna Maria (Annie) Rademakers (04-09-1950)
  • 22 Sister Magaretha Gertrudis married Louis Jean Woit (28-09-1951)
  • 25 Married (law) to Agnes Gerarda Theresia (Maus) Beckers (13-09-1954)
  • 26 Married (church) to Agnes Gerarda Theresia (Maus) Beckers (06-08-1955)
  • 28 Son Paul born
  • 30 Sister Maria Johanna (Riet) married Cornelis Petrus Gerardus (Cees) Pijnenburg (06-08-1959)
  • 30 Son Richard born
  • 31 Father Johannus Hendrikus (Harry) died (26-10-1960)
  • 32 Sister Anna Helena Goossens (Annie) died (27-06-1962)
  • 33 Mother Antonia Elisabeth Vullings died (28-09-1962)
  • 47 memorial stone new school unveiled (30-09-1977)
  • 48 Brother Gerardus Egidius died (22-02-1978)
  • 53 Son Paul married Franca
  • 54 Brother Hendrikus Maria (Harry) died (21-05-1984)
  • 66 Sister Magaretha Gertrudis died (09-04-1996)
  • 68 Son Richard married Wendy
  • 68 Sister Anna Catharine (Toosje) died (19-02-1998)

Connected with

Sources

  • First-hand information from Richard Goossens
  • Second hand information narated to me by my parents and grandparents.
  1. Bron: KNMI De temperatuur op 28 juni 1929 lag tussen 7,2 °C en 21,0 °C en was gemiddeld 13,7 °C. Er was 14,5 uur zonneschijn (87%). De gemiddelde windsnelheid was 3 Bft (matige wind) en kwam overheersend uit het noorden.
  2. Bron: Wiewaswie Bevolkingsregister Venray 1932-1940
  3. Bron: Wikipedia Wellerlooi, Limburg
  4. Bron: Wiewaswie Bevolkingsregister Venray 1932-1940
  5. Bron: KNMI De temperatuur op 23 september 1955 lag tussen 14,6 °C en 24,2 °C en was gemiddeld 18,4 °C. Er was 6,2 uur zonneschijn (51%). Het was half bewolkt. De gemiddelde windsnelheid was 4 Bft (matige wind) en kwam overheersend uit het oost-zuid-oosten.
  6. Bron: Delpher Artikel Limburgs Dagblad 12-7-1963
  7. Bron: Jubileumboek Mgr. Hanssenschool juni 2010
  8. Bron: Delpher Artikel Limburgs Dagblad 26-3-1972
  9. Bron: Delpher Artikel Limburgs Dagblad 26-6-1974
  10. Bron: Delpher Artikel Limburgs Dagblad 2-4-1977
  11. Bron: Delpher Artikel Dagblad Oostelijk Zuidlimburg 23-11-1976
  12. Bron: Delpher Artikel Dagblad voor Oostelijke Zuidlimburg 27-11-1976
  13. Bron: Delpher Artikel Limburgs Dagblad 1-10-1977
  14. Bron: Delpher Artikel Limburgs Dagblad 5-10-1978
  15. Bron: Delpher Artikel Limburgs Dagblag 17-6-1989
  16. Bron: Delpher Artikel Limburgsch Dagblag 24-6-1989
  17. Bron: KNMI Een koude dag met gemiddelde temperatuur van 2,7 °C en een gevoelstemperatuur van 0,2 °C. Zwakke wind uit het noord-noord-oosten. De minimum temperatuur was 1,7 °C en de maximum temperatuur 4,5 °C.
  18. Bron Online Familieberichten
  19. Bron: Graftombe

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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I've looked through your profiles and did not find any matches to my tree. They were are from Elspeet. First record I have is Meijnt Goossens, Goossens or Goossensz. The next generation's last name was Maijntens, then van Asselt
posted by Jeanne Gunderson

Rejected matches › Christoffel Jacobus Goosen

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