Antie Toy het egter haar laaste asem verlede week uitgeblaas nadat sy saggies haar oggendgebed saam met haar dogter, Betty Koopman, voltooi het. Betty het tydens ‘n meer sombere besoek aan hul tuiste op Donderdag 22 Januarie vertel haar ma het behandeling vir ‘n longinfeksie ontvang, maar was nie regtig siek nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Ons het gesels en saam gebid en gesing, soos ons altyd doen. Ons het omstreeks 08:30 nog die Onse Vader saam gebid en kort daarna het sy beswyk. Ons is seer weens die verlies, maar koester goeie herinneringe van haar en ons is tevrede,” het Koopman ges\u00ea.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘HAAR WYSHEID WAS KOSBAAR’<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Benewens die verlies van haar ma se teenwoordigheid, meen Koopman hulle sal dit veral mis om hul geliefde matriarg met enige situasie en besluit te raadpleeg en lief en leed met haar te deel. “Haar wysheid was kosbaar en sy sou ons altyd teregwys.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Op 100 jaar oud was Antie Toy nie net haar gemeenskap se oudste inwoner nie, maar ‘n lewende voorbeeld van onwrikbare geloof en familielewe. Sy het grootgeword op die Bredell-plaas tydens “maer dog lekker” jare, en het later as huishulp gewerk en ‘n liefdevolle huwelik met Joseph gehad wat 11 kinders voortgebring het. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Met vier oorlewende kinders en ‘n string nageslagte wat strek tot agteragterkleinkinders, was familie die middelpunt van haar bestaan. Haar lewensfilosofie was eenvoudig, maar diepgaand: “Elke dag is ‘n goeie dag” danksy die Here se sorg en se\u00ebninge. Haar goue jare het sy geniet met stiltetyd met Die Woord, DisaFM se geestelike programme, sepiedrama’s, en die kosbare geselskap van familie en vriende. Haar grootste erfenis: ‘n hart vol dankbaarheid en die wysheid dat elke dag ‘n se\u00ebning van die Here is.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volgens mede-inwoner Doreen Finger bring sy hulde aan ‘n dierbare vriendin en ‘n buitengewone vrou wat ontelbare lewens geraak het. “Veertien jaar lank was ons vriende, en in al daardie jare het ek nooit ‘n harde woord uit haar mond gehoor nie. Sy was terselfdertyd ‘n vriendin, moederfiguur en bron van ontelbare se\u00ebninge wat elke woord bemoedigend en opbouend gemaak het. Haar verbinding met my familie was diep \u2013 sy het selfs my vader geken en gerespekteer voordat ons mekaar ontmoet het, wat ons vriendskap nog meer betekenisvol gemaak het.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘VEEL MEEER AS NET ‘N VRIENDIN’<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Antie Toy was egter veel meer as net ‘n persoonlike vriendin \u2013 sy was ‘n gebedskryger vir ons hele gemeenskap. Ek glo vas dat ons omgewing se merkwaardige vrede gedurende haar leeftyd die gevolg van haar getroue voorbidding vir ons buurt en sy inwoners was. Die gemeenskap het meer as net ‘n honderdjarige verloor \u2013 ons het ons geestelike dekking verloor. Sy was werklik legendaries en het ons gemeenskap in haar gebede gedra, waardeur ons almal beskerm en gese\u00ebn is. Haar nalatenskap gaan oor ‘n volle eeu van liefde, gebed en diens aan ander. Rus in vrede, dierbare vriendin \u2013 jou honderd jaar tussen ons was ‘n se\u00ebn bo alle maatstawwe,” het Finger meegedeel. Adjudant-offisier Suzan Jantjies, ‘n woordvoerder vir die Somerset-Wes-polisie, het in lig van die verlies gedeel: “Antie Toy was vir 13 jaar deel van die Somerset-Wes- seniorklub en ‘n getroue lid. Dit was so ‘n se\u00ebn om Antie Toy as deel van ons groep te gehad het. Haar rustige geaardheid en die feit dat sy altyd reg was vir ‘n grappie, het gemaak dat sy ‘n groot gunsteling in ons groep was. Ek het persoonlik baie wysheid by Antie Toy geleer en lesse ontvang wat ek vir jare sal koester. Haar heengaan is ‘n groot verlies vir ons en haar plek in ons harte sal altyd oop wees. Ons koester die pragtige herinneringe wat ons al die jare saam gemaak het. Rus sag, Antie Toy, u bly vir altyd in ons harte.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \uf06e ‘n Begrafnisdiens word vir Saterdag (31 Januarie) om 09:00 by die VGK-gemeente Somerset-Wes beplan. 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