Through church, in 1950, Harriet met a handsome young man named Lewis Hamm, and the two hit it off immediately, and quickly began dating. She also attended Coopersville schools, and graduated from Coopersville High School in 1942. Harriet and her family also grew up faithfully attending the First Reformed Church, and her faith was an important part of who she was all her life. As a result, Harriet grew up strong, independent and responsible, traits she passed on to all who knew her. Harriet rose before dawn each day to help with the milking of the cows, and in the wintertime she dutifully trudged through the snow to shovel the family's long driveway each day before school.

Like many hard-working Dutch families, located in Western Michigan, the Schippers girls were expected to do their fair share around the farm growing up, instilling a wonderful work ethic in young Harriet from an early age. Harriet joined her sister Wilma in the Schippers home on the family farm in Coopersville. Then, on Leap Day, February 29, 1924, the couple was blessed with a beautiful, special baby girl, a daughter they named Harriet. In the small farming community of Coopersville, Henry and Grace Schippers were preparing a celebration of their own that winter, anxiously awaiting the birth of a child. Clearly, there was much to celebrate in 1924. Those were exciting times in this country, as the Roaring 20s began to roar, and the automobile and the airplane were becoming a part of everyday life for so many average Americans. Harriet's story began on a cool winter day in 1924, in the little farming town of Coopersville, Michigan.

Harriet was so devoted to those around her, yet remained her own person, teaching us to do the same. Her lifetime was devoted to those fortunate enough to be in her personal orbit, her beloved husband, her loving son and granddaughters, and the Lord she loved so much. She was a special lady, a Leap Day baby, yet Harriet was really even rarer than that. Harriet Hamm was a remarkable woman, of great strength, faith and love.

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