June 22 1914

Some weeks before the start of the first world war Joanna Catharina Van de Perre died in Okegem, where she had been born in 1838.

She married Karel Bernardus Broeckaert (Wetteren 1832 - Okegem 1928) and they had twelve children. The couple is represented in the photo in the left column of this blog.

The eldest, Clementina Broeckaert (Okegem 1858 - 1939) was the mother of my maternal grandfather, Joannes Franciscus Neukermans (Okegem 1886 - Aalst 1961).