Interview with Herman Ophoff

It is March 24, 2008, and I am at the residence of Mr. Herman Ophoff in Grand Rapids, Michigan. MHH: Mr. Ophoff, where and when were you born? HO: I was born on Butterworth Avenue in Grand Rapids. And when I was two years old, my folks moved because my dad (Rev. George M. Ophoff) took the call to Byron Center (he had been at Hope Protestant Reformed Church —I think he was there for five years.) It was after the split of 1924. He got the call to Byron Center, and that was the call he took. At...