She was born as Agnes or Anna in 1904 in Chicago, the second child of Edward and Jennie Leep, who married in 1902 in Chicago. Before Agnes Nicholas was born in July 1903. After her were the next siblings born, in Chicago too: Gerrit (Gerald, Garrett), 20 October 1905, Clara, 14 January 1907, Anthony (Anton), 10 April 1908 and Grace, 21 October 1909.

The family lived in April 1910 at a farm in Chicago, Ward 32. Her father Edward was then, like in 1904, a gardener.

The Leep families moved in 1911 from Chicago to Canada and settled in or near the tiny Dutch community of Cramersburg, in the southwestern part of the of southern central Canadian province Saskatchewan. See for much more info and photos of Cramersburg: http://www.calvin.edu/hh/origins/Spring89.pdf

In 1923 Nicholas' family had to leave Cramersburg because of drought and crop failures and moved to Highland, Lake County, in the northwestern part of Indiana, adjacent to Cook County and Chicago in Illinois.

Her mother Jennie alias Katie died in 1924 at the age of about 45 years, likely in or near Lansing, Illinois, about 6 miles west of Highland, Lake County, Indiana.

Anna Leep married after 1920 to the 19 years older widower Henry Hoogeveen, who was born in October 1884 in Nieuw-Amsterdam, province Drenthe, Northeast Netherlands.

They had the children Jeanne, Babs, Bill, Henry, Evelyn, Norma, Marg(aret, probably drown in 1929 in drown in the Saskatchewan River, on the same day as her step-sister Styne) and Joy.

Her husband Henry Hoogeveen died in May 1968 at the age of 83 years in the town of Cabri, situated in Southwest Saskatchewan, Canada, directly north of Gull Lake, northwest of Swift Current and east of the Great Sand Hills. Widow Anna died in March 1994 at the age of 89 years in Regina, the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and situated in its South.
They were both buried in the tiny village of Shackleton, 12,5 km away from Cabri, which had in 2011 7 houses and 10 people.