https://www.scribd.com/doc/29456154/Grandpas-Mansion-for-Sale
above: this is the ONLY photo I could find of the Kok-Peters et al having a BIG THANKSGIVING DINNER @ the BUTTERBALL MANSION in Grand Rapids, MI. .On the left you see my step-grandmother, Nancy, ...she appears to be interacting with my younger brother Steven, who was still a toddler at the time (mid-70's), and you see my mom, Linda to the right of Steve, and that may be me in the dark blue shirt to the right of my mom. I may have been about ten years old at the time.This was a typical thanksgiving dinner at Grandpa's house...he always cooked a big turkey as well as prime-rib and we enjoyed his fancy butter and all the fixings at the big table...while grandpa & my dad (a Christian pastor) had theological conversation most of the time...and sometimes my sister, Julie, & my half-uncle Mark would get in an argument...while I played with my half-aunt Teri (same age as me)...and we ran around the mansion after dinner...searching all the little nooks & crannies of the huge house.
above: there must be a color version of this somewhere...but I could only find the black-&-white...must have been late 70's at the Butterball Mansion...a larger gathering including some of the cousins & aunts/uncles from out-of-town...(vangenderens, spees, kammingas, barb, et al), most of BOTH the Peters I & II families, posing by the beautiful spiral staircase, back when we were still in relative harmony with each other...before the "big split" of sorts...
also see
also
http://www.mlive.com/grpress/business/index.ssf/2008/10/sonia_speakman_bids_goodbye_af.html
above: this is the ONLY photo I could find of the Kok-Peters et al having a BIG THANKSGIVING DINNER @ the BUTTERBALL MANSION in Grand Rapids, MI. .On the left you see my step-grandmother, Nancy, ...she appears to be interacting with my younger brother Steven, who was still a toddler at the time (mid-70's), and you see my mom, Linda to the right of Steve, and that may be me in the dark blue shirt to the right of my mom. I may have been about ten years old at the time.This was a typical thanksgiving dinner at Grandpa's house...he always cooked a big turkey as well as prime-rib and we enjoyed his fancy butter and all the fixings at the big table...while grandpa & my dad (a Christian pastor) had theological conversation most of the time...and sometimes my sister, Julie, & my half-uncle Mark would get in an argument...while I played with my half-aunt Teri (same age as me)...and we ran around the mansion after dinner...searching all the little nooks & crannies of the huge house.
also see
1/5/10
"Butterball Mansion property in East Grand Rapids will be split in two for sale"
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2010/01/butterball_mansion_property_in.htmlalso
http://www.mlive.com/grpress/business/index.ssf/2008/10/sonia_speakman_bids_goodbye_af.html
