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Ode to Marie Antionette Keasberry-van Beekom | You wanted to cook

By Bo1 maart 2025

DEAR GRANDMA KEASBERRY

I found it very interesting that you started an Indonesian restaurant and also that you were already

50 when you started it and so I wanted to thank you personally for inspiring so many

people inspire their passion, hobbies and their love for things to follow and to

go expand into their real work, so that they really enjoy going to

work and that's why I started writing this ode for you.You started out with a

clothing store, but you didn't like that very much: You WANTED to cook and you took that risk and that

I find that really brave. And it worked, everyone knew if you really want Indonesian food

you went to Djokja and that was your store. You did everything to be able to

cooking and that's really special. I also think it would be nice to cook in my own

restaurant, but then my brother would do the cooking because he does it much more often than

me and I would be a waiter with my friend Sam. I am sorry that you cannot

be able to go read it anymore, but I'm sure if you could you would be really happy

be

Lots of love Bo Stjanschool 7B

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Ode by Bo to grandma Keasberry.

Students from group 7 of the Sint Janschool in Amsterdam West wrote odes to five special Amsterdam women, as part of the curriculum at Vrouwen van Amsterdam - an ode.

Restaurant Djokja te Amsterdam met oma Keasberry, foto uit famlie archief

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.

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