Klaas Idser Tigchelaar, born in Harlingen on March 5, 1906, son of Germen Tigchelaar (workman, warehouseman, docker and agent crayon portraits) and Klaske van der Wal (maid servant), portrait hawker, died in Franeker on October 25, 1971, buried in Harlingen, aged 65 years.

Klaas was married in Franeker on January 25, 1934, at the age of 27 to
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