Fons van Bastelaar
Van Bastelaar was born in Alphen aan den Rijn as son of Josephus Ludovicus van Bastelaar and Maria Cornelia Schrama. In 1941 he started working at the municipal secretary of Hazerswoude. He became deputy commissioners and later commissioner and in 1946 deputy chief of the secretariat of the Eibergen municipality. In February 1947 he was appointed chief commissioner at the municipal secretariat of Wateringen. Seven years later he became town clerk after the departure of L.M.J. Hendrix.