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- Medard Joseph De Vos (family knew him as "Joe" in America)
remarried to his first cousin Madeleine van Thournot with whom he had no other children.
Madeleine died near Santa Cruz, Calif. on 3 Dec 2005; Joe was born about 1895 in Machelen, Belgium, and died about 1974
- Madeleine van Thournot, born 25 Feb 1904 (mother was Marie Bonamie), married her cousin Joe (Medard) De Vos in later life,
with whom she had no children. As of October 2005, Madeleine was nearly blind, living in a nursing home near
Santa Cruz, California, but could relate to visitors for a few minutes each day.
Madeleine died of a heart attack on 3 December 2005, about 2 months
shy of her 102nd birthday. Video available (CD only)
- (grandmother) Marie Marina Tack, born 1885 in Belgium, had a daughter
Georgina with George Stegun, married Medard (Joe) de Vos in 1920. She had siblings who have kept her name "Tack".
- George Alphonse De Vos , born 25 July 1922, married
Winifred Olsen on 4 May 1944,divorced Nov 1974 and remarried
to Suzanne Lake in 1974, both living in Oakland, Calif.; George has retired from
the Anthropology Dept at UC-Berkeley. Videos available (CD only)
- Suzanne Lake, born about 1930 to father Mahew Lake and mother Suzanne Robin, married to George Alphonse De Vos
about 1976, with no biological children.
- Winifred Louise Olsen , born 21 July 1923, married George A. De Vos on 4 May 1944,
divorced on 4 May 1974 and remarried on 12 September 1982 to Larry McLaughlin. After living at 11 El Camino Real
in Berkeley, California, for many years, the couple moved to an Oakland retirement condo in 2005.
Videos available (CD only)
- Laurence McLaughlin ("Larry"), born 19 May 1924, becoming deaf early in life. Larry was married 4 times;
Lynn Lisenby and Anne Johnson were daughters from his
first marriage; Randall Sean McLaughlin was a product of his second marriage.
Winifred (Olsen) DeVos was Larry’s fourth wife, but there were no children by his third or fourth
marriages. This information on Larry courtesy of Anne Johnson. Larry died
in Oakland, California, on 5 December 2005, the same day his step-daughter (Susan De Vos) became
legally separated. Larry had a clever and cheerful sense of humor, and was an excellent Scrabble player.
- Laurie Louise, married Fred Moore, with whom she has two children, all still living in Bremerton, Washington
- Eric Steven, born 30 Dec 1953 in Nagoya, Japan
(father was on a Fulbright to Japan); married Margaret Mann, having one child Christina; divorced Margaret
about 2000 and remarried Lisa X. with no additional children; as of June 2007
was teaching at SVSU in Saginaw, Mich.
- Susan Marie, born 30 Dec 1953 in Nagoya (a breech baby), Japan (father was on a Fulbright to Japan).
Susan and Eric are twins
- Michael Evan, born 17 January 1957, builder of homes in Incline Village, Nevada; died April 2000 of heart attack
- a fifth child was stillborn between Susan and Michael
- Marie Marina Tack earlier had the child Georgina with a German named
George Stegun, who went to Brazil to avoid military service and sent
money to Marina to join him. Marina used the money instead to come to America,
where she met and married Joe De Vos. Georgina married Frank Steyvoort, but died in Detroit in
1988 leaving no children
