ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: VAN DUYM, PETER 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: The St. Tammany News, St. Tammany, La.

Posted: Monday, November 5, 2012 

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VAN DUYM, DIRK PETER VAN AMEYDEN 

Peter van Duym, 91, died peacefully on September 14, 2012 in Madison, Wisc. 

Born Sept.12, 1921 in Bandung, on the island of Java in Indonesia, he was the 
only child of Dirk van Ameyden van Duym and Wilhelmina van de Water. 

After his naturalization as a U.S. citizen, he received his master’s degree in 
geology from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and began working as an 
exploration geologist for Shell Oil Company. 
In 1956 he and his family moved to Louisiana, and in 1960 settled in Covington. 
After retiring in 1981, Peter and Barbara started a blueberry farm, and between 
harvests they enjoyed many years of travel and elder-hosteling; their journeys 
ranged from bicycling in France to hiking in the Sierras to nature study in 
northern Wisconsin. 

In 2007, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Peter and Barbara moved to Oakwood 
Village Retirement Community in Madison, Wisc. 
His love of nature and environmental ethic served as a role model and inspired 
both his friends and family: daughter Diana (deceased) and son-in-law Paul, and 
their children Johanna and Natalia Kieniewicz, of the UK; son Dirk, daughter-
in-law Sherry, of Mandeville and their children Suzanne, Marty, and Marena; and 
son Andy, daughter-in-law Anne, of Madison, Wisc. and their children Dirk and 
Raina. 

A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 17 at 3 p. m. at the 
Northshore Unitarian Universalist Society in Lacombe.

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