Nyst (Mieke), Maria Catherina
Maria Catherina Nyst (Mieke) 1940-2017
Mieke (Maria) Nyst (Akkerman) died peacefully on February 2, 2017. Mieke was born in Arnhem (Netherlands) in 1940. In 1944 she experienced the horrors of war when the battle of Arnhem erupted. Later on she grew up to become a schoolteacher. She met and married Hubert Nyst and shortly thereafter in 1966, they decided to immigrate to Canada where Marianne, Robert and Michelle were born.
