Lambert was baptized on 16 September 1677.¹

     Lambert married Mayke Hooglandt circa 1705.²

     Lambert died.

     Larry Van Dyke, son of Harold Edmond Van Dyke and Angela H. Rizzi, was born on 18 November 1952.¹

     Larry married Clare Barone after 1968.²

     Leonard Scott Van Dyke, son of Leonard Wilson Van Dyke and Juliet Lay Scott, was born on 22 November 1909 at Missouri.^1,2

     Leonard married Bertha Mae Carmean on 18 June 1938.¹

     Leonard died on 28 February 1999, at age 89,¹ and was buried at Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Saline, Missouri.³

     Leonard Wilson Van Dyke, son of Jacob Van Dyke and Rachel Rebecca Shepherd, was born on 11 September 1879 at Missouri.^1,2

     Leonard married Juliet Lay Scott on 19 March 1907.¹

     Leonard died on 20 February 1976, at age 96,^1,3 and was buried at Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Saline, Missouri.³

     Lester Clinton Van Dyke, son of Lester Rushmore Van Dyke and Gertrude Catherine Walling, was born on 12 May 1924 at Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York.^2,3

     Lester Clinton Van Dyke was in Military Service on 16 November 1942 at New York City, New York, His rank was P5T (Private) and assigned to the Air Corps branch. The term of enlistment was for the duration of the war or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law. His education level was listed as four years of high school and his civilian occupation equilvant listed as carpenters. Finally, his Army serial number was 12186396.⁴

     Lester married Betty Jo Berney, daughter of Arthur George Berney and Josephine Aveline Noland, on 10 June 1944,

VAN DYKE-BERNEY

Miss Betty Jo Berney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Berney of Grandview became the bride of Cadet Lester Van Dyke of Long Island, N. Y., Saturday June 10 in the Knight Congregational church in Grandview. The Rev. L. G. Knight of Nampa read the wedding vow's in the presence of 50 invited guests and relatives. The bride wore an afternoon dress of white crepe with white accessories and she carried a bouquet of white carnations and sweetheart roses with white satin streamers. Miss Julia Eastman of Adrian, Ore., was maid of honor and wore a yellow crepe afternoon dress with white accessories and a white carnation and rosebud corsage. Cadet Harold J Smith of Staten Island N Y was best man. Preceedlng the ceremony, Mrs. Elmer Spang sang "I Love You Truly” accompanied by Mrs. Morgan Shaw who played the wedding marches. Mrs. Van Dyke is a graduate of Grandview high school and has attended the College of Idaho in Caldwell the last two years. She is to teach the 1944-45 school year at Emmett. The bridegroom attended schools in New York and at present is an air cadet at the College of Idaho. A reception was held at the church after the wedding. Mrs. Pauline Stolley, Miss Beth Palmer, Mrs David Basey, Mrs. Robert Duncan, Mrs. George Rocks, Mrs. Ross Osborn and Mrs. Harold Bailey assisted the hostess. The couple will make their home in Caldwell while Cadet Van Dyke is stationed there.^5,6

     The U.S. officially entered World War II on 8 December 1941 following an attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Just about a year before that, in October 1940, President Roosevelt had signed into law the first peacetime selective service draft in U.S. history, due to rising world conflicts. After the U.S. entered WWII a new selective service act required that all men between ages 18 and 65 register for the draft. Between November 1940 and October 1946, over 10 million American men were registered. The Fourth Registration, often referred to as the "old man's registration", was conducted on 27 April 1942 and registered men who born on or between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897 - men who were between 45 and 64 years old - and who were not already in the military. Lester filled out a draft card for World War II on 7 March 1946 (at age 21), while living at Grandview, Owyhee, Idaho.⁷

     Lester died on 1 September 2009 at age 85. His remains were cremated.^8,9