The van Roekel Family in America

The Legacy of Dutch immigrants, Jan and Willemina van Roekel ... A love story ... A true story about overcoming the odds ... A story of dreamers leaping out to make their dreams come true ... A story of the hardships of millions of immigrants who came to America to seize the opportunities ... A story of hard work, achievement, and making a valuable contribution to what is America, a land of opportunity ... A story of reaching beyond, in faith, to levels their families would say, even now looking back ... it is a remarkable story ... What of them have we taken with us? We honor them when we are reasonable risk takers who take a leap of faith and overcome, and when we have faith in the Creator and in ourselves.