Editing Willem Drees (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Echtpaar Drees, 1911, NG-2004-14.jpg|thumb|Catharina Hent and Willem Drees in 1911]]
On 28 July 1910, Drees married Catharina Hent (6 May 1888 – 30 January 1974)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/1187885/hent|title=Graftombe.nl – Informatie over Catharina Hent|website=www.graftombe.nl}}</ref> and had two sons and two daughters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/b/bwn4/drees|title=Drees [sr.], Willem (1886-1988)|language=nl|work=Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland|first=J.|last=Bosmans|date=2013}}</ref> Both his sons Jan Drees and [[Willem Drees Jr.]] were active members of the [[Labour Party (Netherlands)|Labour Party]], but just like Drees left the party around 1970. They joined [[Democratic Socialists '70]] (DS'70), which Drees never did.

Drees was a life-long [[Teetotalism|teetotaler]].<ref name="Biography Willem Drees"/> He was also an [[List of Esperanto speakers|Esperantist]] and addressed the 1954 [[World Esperanto Congress]], which was held in [[Haarlem]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20120722134309/http://uea.org/dokumentoj/bhh/rm1947-1974.html UEA: Reta Muzeo. Materialoj el Biblioteko Hector Hodler. 1947–1974<!-- Bot generated title -->] ''[[World Esperanto Association]]''.</ref>

[[File:Willem Drees sr (1981).jpg|thumb|upright|Drees in his house in [[The Hague]], 2 July 1981]]
Drees died on 14 May 1988 in [[The Hague]], at age 101.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/19/obituaries/willem-drees-dies-at-101-postwar-dutch-leader.html|title=Willem Drees Dies at 101; Postwar Dutch Leader|date=19 May 1988|website=The New York Times}}</ref> From 22 August 1986, when former [[President of Turkey|Turkish President]] [[Celâl Bayar]] died, until his own death, Drees was [[Lists of state leaders by age|the world's oldest living former head of government]].