Coïncidences

My grandfather and godfather Pieter Jozef Timmermans passed away on a misty, chilly winter day, December 4 1953. I still see us sitting at his kitchen table unbolstering (if that is the right word) the corn cobs which he had harvested some days before, when my father came in to tell us that his father had died in the hospital (I don't remember which - there were two) in Ninove.
A mighty oak felled in a couple of months ...
His wife Rosalia Margaretha Ravijst followed him on December 2 1973 - twently years less two days later - she died in the University Clinic in Ghent.
I was born on December 3 1940.