THE DeVRIES QUARTETTE

 

 

The DeVries quartet was singing a lot in those days. They practiced every week at one of the homes. Darlene Friese was their accompanist. We had a piano! We also had a new cook stove, a new couch, a bedroom set, a used oil burner and a kitchen cabinet that my parents gave us. We were at home in our cottage.

I also played the piano for church services that first six months or so. My mother at that time was the regular pianist. Soon after that Bernetta Plucker Nogelmier Berens was chosen to be the church pianist/organist and has had that position for over sixty years.

The next year, Grandfather Plucker’s 160 acre farm became available – the very same farm where my parents had lived nearly 20 years earlier. On March 1, 1947 we moved there to live and love for the next 38 years.

 

The Germantown Men's Chorus
Dorothy DeVries, Accompanist
Wiert Eekoff, Pastor