Death of Former Professor Oosterwal
Life Stories
| Posted on November 13, 2015
Gottfried Oosterwal, 85, of Berrien Springs passed away Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo.
He was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to the late Hillebrand and Margarethe T. (Obrikat) Oosterwal.
Dr. Oosterwal's formative years were spent in Rotterdam during World War II. He had a passion for people and studied theology, history and anthropology at Cambridge and University of Utrecht, receiving his doctorate in 1956. In October 1957, he married Emilie Tilstra; to this union of 41 years, three children were born.
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