Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 4605

Charles A. Hills

M, #460401
     Charles married Mary (Unknown).

Child of Charles A. Hills and Mary (Unknown)

Mary (Unknown)

F, #460402
     Mary married Charles A. Hills.

Child of Mary (Unknown) and Charles A. Hills

Mabel Lorene Larson

F, #460403, b. 28 Dec 1878, d. 16 Oct 1971
Mabel Lorene Larson|b. 28 Dec 1878\nd. 16 Oct 1971|p4605.htm#i460403|Hans Peter Larson||p4605.htm#i460404|Helen Swanson||p4605.htm#i460405|||||||||||||
      Mabel Lorene Larson was born on 28-Dec-1878 at Pierce, Diamond Bluff County, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Hans Peter Larson and Helen Swanson. Mabel married Charles Hiram Conover, son of George M. Conover and Mary E. Hills, on 2-Apr-1899 at Spokane, Spokane County, Washington. Mabel Lorene Larson died on 16-Oct-1971 at Seattle, King County, Washington, at age 92.
Census1-Jun-1900Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho, no children
Census15-Apr-1910Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, 2 children, 1 living

Children of Mabel Lorene Larson and Charles Hiram Conover

Hans Peter Larson

M, #460404
     Hans married Helen Swanson.

Child of Hans Peter Larson and Helen Swanson

Helen Swanson

F, #460405
     Helen married Hans Peter Larson.

Child of Helen Swanson and Hans Peter Larson

Harold Corwin Conover

M, #460406, b. 27 Apr 1906, d. 1 Jul 1907
Harold Corwin Conover|b. 27 Apr 1906\nd. 1 Jul 1907|p4605.htm#i460406|Charles Hiram Conover|b. 28 Oct 1874\nd. 20 Mar 1941|p4604.htm#i460400|Mabel Lorene Larson|b. 28 Dec 1878\nd. 16 Oct 1971|p4605.htm#i460403|George M. Conover|b. circa 1847|p4604.htm#i460398|Mary E. Hills|b. circa 1851|p4604.htm#i460399|Hans P. Larson||p4605.htm#i460404|Helen Swanson||p4605.htm#i460405|
      Harold Corwin Conover was born on 27-Apr-1906 at Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho. He was the son of Charles Hiram Conover and Mabel Lorene Larson. Harold Corwin Conover died on 1-Jul-1907 at age 1.

Charles Norman Hills Conover

M, #460407, b. 2 Dec 1900, d. 4 Mar 1990
Charles Norman Hills Conover|b. 2 Dec 1900\nd. 4 Mar 1990|p4605.htm#i460407|Charles Hiram Conover|b. 28 Oct 1874\nd. 20 Mar 1941|p4604.htm#i460400|Mabel Lorene Larson|b. 28 Dec 1878\nd. 16 Oct 1971|p4605.htm#i460403|George M. Conover|b. circa 1847|p4604.htm#i460398|Mary E. Hills|b. circa 1851|p4604.htm#i460399|Hans P. Larson||p4605.htm#i460404|Helen Swanson||p4605.htm#i460405|
      Charles Norman Hills Conover was born on 2-Dec-1900 at Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho. He was the son of Charles Hiram Conover and Mabel Lorene Larson. Charles Norman Hills Conover died on 4-Mar-1990 at Seattle, King County, Washington, at age 89.

Harry William Bier

M, #460409
     Harry married Rose Ernestine O'Neill.

Rose Ernestine O'Neill

F, #460410
     Rose married Harry William Bier.

(Unknown) Conover

M, #460411
      (Unknown) Conover was born at New York. (Unknown) married (Unknown) (Unknown).

Child of (Unknown) Conover and (Unknown) (Unknown)

(Unknown) (Unknown)

F, #460412
      (Unknown) (Unknown) was born at Massachusetts. (Unknown) married (Unknown) Conover.

Child of (Unknown) (Unknown) and (Unknown) Conover

Pearl Conover

F, #460413
Pearl Conover||p4605.htm#i460413|George M. Conover|b. circa 1847|p4604.htm#i460398|Mary E. Hills|b. circa 1851|p4604.htm#i460399|(Unknown) Conover||p4605.htm#i460411|(Unknown) (Unknown)||p4605.htm#i460412|Charles A. Hills||p4605.htm#i460401|Mary (Unknown)||p4605.htm#i460402|
     Pearl Conover was the daughter of George M. Conover and Mary E. Hills.

Lillian Conover

F, #460414
Lillian Conover||p4605.htm#i460414|George M. Conover|b. circa 1847|p4604.htm#i460398|Mary E. Hills|b. circa 1851|p4604.htm#i460399|(Unknown) Conover||p4605.htm#i460411|(Unknown) (Unknown)||p4605.htm#i460412|Charles A. Hills||p4605.htm#i460401|Mary (Unknown)||p4605.htm#i460402|
     Lillian Conover was the daughter of George M. Conover and Mary E. Hills.

Georgia Conover

F, #460415
Georgia Conover||p4605.htm#i460415|George M. Conover|b. circa 1847|p4604.htm#i460398|Mary E. Hills|b. circa 1851|p4604.htm#i460399|(Unknown) Conover||p4605.htm#i460411|(Unknown) (Unknown)||p4605.htm#i460412|Charles A. Hills||p4605.htm#i460401|Mary (Unknown)||p4605.htm#i460402|
     Georgia Conover was the daughter of George M. Conover and Mary E. Hills.

Lowell J. Staley

M, #460416, b. circa 1904
Lowell J. Staley|b. circa 1904|p4605.htm#i460416|Chester Byron Staley|b. 7 Jun 1876\nd. 8 Aug 1938|p3528.htm#i352799|Daisy Bell Woolley|b. 25 Feb 1879\nd. 3 Aug 1910|p3528.htm#i352798|Roswell Staley||p3528.htm#i352800|Ellen Johnston||p3529.htm#i352801|William E. Wooley|b. 7 Jun 1844\nd. 30 Jul 1899|p3451.htm#i345061|Nancy J. Johnson|b. circa 1830\nd. 14 Sep 1923|p3451.htm#i345062|

Relationship=8th cousin of David Kipp Conover Jr.
Relationship=9th great-grandson of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven.
      Lowell J. Staley was born circa 1904 at Ohio. He was the son of Chester Byron Staley and Daisy Bell Woolley.

Donald W. Smith

M, #460417, b. circa 1907
      Donald W. Smith was born circa 1907 at Ohio. Donald married Opal D. Staley, daughter of Chester Byron Staley and Daisy Bell Woolley, circa 1926.
Census2-Apr-1930with her parents, Perry Twp., Shelby County, Ohio
Census-Occ2-Apr-1930a laborer, county road work

George H. Crawford

M, #460422, b. 9 Aug 1843, d. 30 Apr 1908
      George H. Crawford was born on 9-Aug-1843 at Shark River, Monmouth County, New Jersey. George married Sarah Jane Brower on 2-Jan-1867 at Atlantic Twp., Monmouth County, New Jersey. George H. Crawford died on 30-Apr-1908 at Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, at age 64.

Child of George H. Crawford and Sarah Jane Brower

Sarah Jane Brower

F, #460423, b. 3 Apr 1846, d. 16 Nov 1916
      Sarah Jane Brower was born on 3-Apr-1846. She was born on 30-Apr-1846 at Atlantic, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Sarah married George H. Crawford on 2-Jan-1867 at Atlantic Twp., Monmouth County, New Jersey. Sarah Jane Brower died on 16-Nov-1916 at Asbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey, at age 70.
     She was also known as Sara J. Brower.

Child of Sarah Jane Brower and George H. Crawford

Christopher Crawford

M, #460427

Relationship=4th cousin 1 time removed of David Kipp Conover Jr.
Relationship=10th great-grandson of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven.

Laurence Herman Versluis

M, #460435, b. 28 Apr 1922, d. 18 Jul 1984
Laurence Herman Versluis|b. 28 Apr 1922\nd. 18 Jul 1984|p4605.htm#i460435|August Versluis|b. 4 Feb 1890\nd. 1 Feb 1970|p4503.htm#i450268|Bonnie Bell Martin|b. 18 Sep 1904\nd. 30 Apr 1986|p4503.htm#i450267|Henry Versluis||p4503.htm#i450269|Sophia Begyn||p4503.htm#i450270|Laurel L. Martin|b. 26 Oct 1873\nd. 15 Oct 1961|p4503.htm#i450259|Clara M. Grinstead|b. 13 Mar 1876\nd. 9 Aug 1965|p976.htm#i97521|

Relationship=8th cousin 1 time removed of David Kipp Conover Jr.
Relationship=10th great-grandson of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven.
      Laurence Herman Versluis was born on 28-Apr-1922 at Lake Park, Dickinson County, Iowa. He was the son of August Versluis and Bonnie Bell Martin. Laurence married Roberta Thomasina Scott, daughter of Thomas Lawrence Scott and Olive Alberta Smith. Laurence Herman Versluis died on 18-Jul-1984 at Chula Vista, San Diego County, California, at age 62; in the McDonald's Massacre. Laurence was buried on 21-Jul-1984 at Chula Vista, San Diego County, California. He died in Aug-1984 his last known address was at Chula Vista, San Diego County, California, according to the Social Security Death Index.
     

SAN DIEGO -- In the summer of 1984, a celebratory California was in the headlines. In San Francisco, the Democratic National Convention was under way. In Los Angeles, organizers were making last minute preparations for the Olympics.

Then on the afternoon of July 18, the small San Diego community of San Ysidro grabbed the spotlight for a very different reason.

On that day 20 years ago, an unemployed security guard, James Oliver Huberty, walked into a McDonald's in San Ysidro, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, and began shooting. Armed with three guns, he killed 21 people, including five children and six teenagers, and wounded 19 before he was shot and killed by a police sniper.

At the time, his 77-minute rampage was the largest single-day, single-gunman massacre in U.S. history.

The shooting left gaps in families and shocked a nation that hadn't seen such violence on a large scale. The day changed how police respond to tragedy and awakened officers to the possibility of mass murder.

"It was new then, as flying an airplane into the World Trade Center was new in 2001," said Chuck Foster, the police sniper who ultimately ended the rampage. "All of the responders -- the police officers, the firefighters, the paramedics -- weren't foreseeing the scope of this killing spree."

It had been almost two decades since the nation had seen anything comparable -- the 1966 shooting spree from atop a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, when architecture student Charles Joseph Whitman killed 14 and wounded 31.

Huberty's rampage at San Ysidro convulsed the country. Politicians used the incident to lobby for stricter gun laws. Mental health experts and citizens wanted to know why Huberty's call to a nearby clinic wasn't returned. Others asked why his wife Etna did nothing when her husband left the house saying he was going "hunting humans."

Etna Huberty, who died last year, said such outbursts were not unusual and blamed her husband's violent streak on a troubled childhood.

The massacre also led to changes in police tactics, with officers reconsidering training practices that had them use force only as a last resort. New practices of providing mental health response teams evolved.

San Diego Police Officer Miguel Rosario, the first on the scene, remembers having to cope with the aftermath.

"I had to work the next day. I drove around in a very numb state," he said. While counseling was available, no one advised Rosario to take time off.

"It wasn't that the department was insensitive. It was that we just didn't know," he said.

After the incident, San Diego formed a full-time SWAT Team. Psychologists who counseled the survivors, victims' families and police became recognized as experts in the field. And when another gunman fatally shot 23 at a restaurant in Killeen, Texas in 1991, San Diego's counseling team was called.

In the years since Huberty's rampage, his gruesome death total has been surpassed, but people who study homicide say there is something lasting and shocking about the McDonald's massacre.

"I think a lot of it had to do not with the victim count but with the location, that it was a McDonald's. Everyone has a McDonald's in their town; they connected with it," said James Alan Fox, a professor at criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston who studies mass murders.

In the weeks after the tragedy, thousands of sightseers drove by the restaurant to gawk before McDonald's razed the building. Survivors and relatives of the victims received letters from around the country. After a lengthy debate about what to do with the site, a community college was built, along with a memorial of white marble blocks to honor the victims. Two blocks away is a new McDonald's, which opened in 1985.

On the massacre's 20th anniversary, people affected by the tragedy say the memories are still difficult.

"Slowly we have understood and accepted, but we have not forgotten anything that happened," said Adelina Hernandez, whose 11-year-old son, Omar, was killed along with his friend David.

Hernandez and Maria Flores, David's mother, became close. Each tried to understand the incident in her own way. Adelina, 73, has worked at an elementary school cafeteria for years, calling it her "daily medicine." Maria Flores now has two young children, one 15 and another 11. She said she was able to live through the incident through them and her oldest son, Guillermo.

Others also have worked to move past the tragedy. Ken Dickey, a college student who worked at McDonald's for the summer and survived by hiding in the restaurant's basement, worked at another McDonald's before returning to school. Now a high school chemistry teacher he lives in Idaho.

"I go to McDonald's all the time now, I take my kids there," he said. But he still hasn't told his two children, ages 12 and 9, about the tragedy.

In San Ysidro at a memorial service Thursday, a choir sang and readings were offered by students who attend the college that now fills the site of the massacre alongside Interstate 5. Some things have not changed. The post office where Foster stood to take his shot is still there, as is the Yum Yum doughnut shop where Omar and David had gone to get a snack.

At the police department, the incident comes up most often when police train new officers. And a group of officers who responded are still with the force. Rosario helps hire recruits. The police chief at the time, Bill Kolender, is now the county sheriff. Foster, the former sniper, handles medical benefits.

All agree the day is not forgotten.

"I know the date," Kolender said. "I remember."

Child of Laurence Herman Versluis and Roberta Thomasina Scott

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