The Reformed Family: Grandparents

Mrs. Lubbers is a wife and mother in the Protestant Reformed Church of South Holland, Illinois. For I know [Abraham], that he will command his children and his household after him…. Genesis 18:19 I didn't ever really know my grandparents, my paternal grandfather not at all. Life was hard on the farm and Charles died at the age of 62. But I'm told this taciturn fellow was a charter member of Hope Church, Grand Rapids. I have peered closely at the old brown snapshot of him for some small clue...