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Publication name and place:
Valley Times (San Fernando Valley, CA)
Valley Times (San Fernando Valley, CA) published Sep. 18, 1959:
person mentioned: Lia (Van Wijk) Rowley
event type: citizenship
event date: Sep. 11, 1959
[includes photo]
"Van Nuys Family Now U.S. Citizens
Members of the Van Wijk family, above, of __ Enadia Way, Van Nuys, are now U.S. citizens, after taking oath with 103 others in mass ceremony. Cornelia Van Wijk, 20, left, holds multi-autographed wooden shoes given her and her parents, Cornelius and Johana Van Wijk right by well-wishing friends and relatives in their old home town of Haarlem, Holland, when they came to the United States five-and-a-half years ago. Cornelius Van Wijk is a design engineer at Lockheed. His daughter is pre-med junior at UCLA. — Valley Times photo."