Remembering Dad: Gary Vermeer's Daughter Recalls His Life and Legacy

When Mary Andringa first told me she wanted to write a book about her father, Gary, I thought, That's already been done.

Turns out, I was wrong.

For more than a year, Donna Biddle and I had researched the lives and legacies of Gary and Matilda. We told Gary's story as a pair of journalists. Our book, In Search of a Better Way--which was published in 2008 for Vermeer Corporation's sixtieth anniversary--chronicled the couple's remarkable history.

Now Mary, in warm and vivid narrative, tells of h...