Interview with Tim Kooima (1)

MHH: It is March 2, 2009, and I am about to interview Mr. Tim Kooima from the Hull Protestant Reformed Church in Hull, IA.  Mr. Kooima, where and when were you born? TK:  October 26, 1932.  I was born at the home of my mother’s parents, in Iowa, with a Hudson, SD address, which caused me some problems later on (laughter). MHH:  What were those problems? TK:  Well, the first time we were going to leave the United States, we had to have a passport.  So we have to have a birth certificate....