More than 900 people gathered at a church in the Netherlands on Aug. 13 for the funeral of Barry Kooijmans, the 47-year-old managing director of The Nomad Company, according to the Sport Partner magazine. Kooijmans died along with his wife April and their two daughters on the Malaysia Airlines' flight that was shot down over Ukrainian territory on July 17.
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