Ode to Marie Antionette Keasberry-van BeekomStill running a restaurant at 50?
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Dear Grandma Keasberry,
I think it's great that you closed your clothing store and fulfilled your dream by opening your own Indonesian restaurant. You are truly an inspiration to girls and women who are trying to achieve their dreams. It's wonderful that your son and daughter-in-law took over the business and that it is still going strong. It's also nice that you wrote a cookbook, because my mother has “Grandma Keasberry's Indonesian Kitchen Secrets” and still cooks from it often. I think it's very impressive that you started a restaurant at the age of 50.
Best wishes
Kyra Bijkerk
Group 8a
St. Janschool, Amsterdam
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Ode to Grandma Keasberry by Kyra Bijkerk
The students in grade 8 at the Sint Janschool in Amsterdam West wrote odes to five remarkable women from Amsterdam as part of the curriculum for Women of Amsterdam—an ode.
Marie Antionette Keasberry-van Beekom
Marie Antionette Keasberry-van Beekom, later known as Grandma Keasberry, was born in 1903 as Marie Antoinette Keasberry in Gombong, Central Java.