Mr. Speaker. I rise today to commend the late Tony William DeGroot for receiving the Lemoore Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Commitment to Kings County Agriculture Award. Raised in Bennekom. Netherlands. Mr. DeGroot was the youngest of eleven children. During World War II. Mr. DeGroots family was heavily involved in the Dutch Resistance. which led to his admiration of the bravery of the American soldiers and later his emigration to the United States at the age of twentyone. On May 15. 1957. Mr. DeGroot and his wife. Betty. were married in Hollandale. Minnesota. They later moved to Southern California in 1959. and five years later they began their successful dairy farm operation in the Central Valley.
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