\u2019n Oud-Bloemfonteiner, bekend vir haar lekker beskuit, het op 14 Maart haar 100ste verjaardag in Johannesburg gevier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ouma Lettie Wilken (n\u00e9e Upton) se familie en vriende het haar in die Queenshaven-tehuis vir bejaardes verras om di\u00e9 groot dag te gedenk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns was baie gelukkig en bly om die dag saam met Ouma Lettie te deel,\u201d het Hugo, haar seun, aan Bloemnuus<\/i> geskryf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns kon baie stories oor gister uitruil.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ouma Lettie is in 1922 op \u2019n plaas in die Dordrecht-omgewing gebore. Sy was die ousus van vyf broers en vyf susters. Een van haar boeties is doodgebore, en een van haar sussies is op 15 maande oorlede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ouma Lettie het haar skoolloopbaan in Dordrecht en Zastron voltooi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel sy \u2019n verpleegster wou word, is di\u00e9 droom nooit verwesenlik nie. Sy het as \u2019n huishoudster begin werk, en haar later by die Moedersbond-hospitaal in Pretoria aangesluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In di\u00e9 stad het sy haar eerste man, Mighal van Rooyen, by \u2019n kerkgeselligheid ontmoet. Hulle is in 1943 getroud, en later met twee seuns, Ivan en Neels, gese\u00ebn. Neels is in 2015 n\u00e1 \u2019n operasie oorlede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 hul egskeiding in 1952 het sy na Bloemfontein verhuis, waar sy Hugo Wilken in 1955 ontmoet het. Sy word toe ma vir sy drie kinders, Hugo, Johan en Mariana. Laasgenoemde is in 2006 n\u00e1 \u2019n ernstige motorongeluk oorlede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ouma Lettie moes ook al \u2019n skoondogter en twee kleinkinders aan die dood afstaan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 Oupa Wilken se dood in 1972 het sy haar pensioen aangevul deur haar gebak te verkoop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Hugo was sy in die Bloemfontein-omgewing veral bekend vir haar beskuit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMense het van heinde en ver bestellings geplaas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het met die bak volgehou totdat sy ongeveer 90 jaar oud was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy het baie jare alleen in haar huis in Wilgehof gebly totdat sy op 95 na Alberton verhuis het om by Johan en sy vrou Hester te gaan woon,\u201d s\u00ea Hugo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn Oktober 2021 het sy na die Queenshaven-tehuis geskuif.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vandag is Ouma Lettie die trotse ouma van 14 kleinkinders en 23 agterkleinkinders \u2013 om nie eens van al die aangetroudes te praat nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is voorwaar \u2019n besondere se\u00ebn van die Here,\u201d s\u00ea Hugo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns glo dat Ouma Lettie deur \u2019n opregte lewe, goeie gesondheid en die Here se genade \u2013 en met baie gebed \u2013 die mylpaal van 100 jaar behaal het. Sy bly voorwaar \u2019n voorbeeld vir almal van ons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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