\u2019n Bekende in Oos-Kaapse natuurbewaring asook in die Voortrekker- en Afrikaanse Volksang- en Volkspelebewegings, Hoffie Williams, is Sondagoggend op die ouderdom van 95 oorlede.<\/p>\n
Williams, een van die oudste inwoners van die Jeffreysrus-aftreeoord op Jeffreysbaai, is presies \u2019n maand voor sy 96ste verjaardag dood nadat hy oor die afgelope paar maande verswak het.<\/p>\n
Hy is bekend vir sy omvangryke kennis van die natuur, sterrekunde, plant- en dierkunde, algemene wetenskap, geskiedenis en letterkunde wat hy graag met kinders gedeel het. <\/p>\n
Williams is op 8 Oktober 1928 op Kariega gebore en was een van die topleerlinge in die 1945-matriekklas van die Humansdorp Ho\u00ebrskool, nog voordat dit tot die Ho\u00ebrskool Nico Malan herdoop is. Hy het hom as elektrisi\u00ebn by die Durban Deep goudmyn aan die Witwatersrand gekwalifiseer, waarna hy vir byna 40 jaar by die eertydse Yskor-staalfabriek in Vanderbiljpark gewerk het.<\/p>\n
Hy is in 1953 met Anna Fouch\u00e9 getroud. Anna het in 1983 in \u2019n motorongeluk gesterf. Williams het na sy aftrede by Yskor hom as natuurbewaarder bekwaam en \u2019n tweede loopbaan begin. Die staaltjie word vertel dat hy vir die praktiese deel van sy natuurbewaringskursus by \u2019n reservaat naby Port Alfred moes gaan werk. Die bewaarders het uitgesien na die koms van die student wat by hulle prakties moes kom doen, en groot was hul verbasing toe die student \u2019n ou man met \u2019n baard was. Hy is toe summier \u201cHoffie the Student\u201d gedoop. Williams het sedert die vroe\u00eb 1990\u2019s tot laat 2000\u2019s by die Loerie-natuurreservaat by die Loeriedam gewerk en oor die jare kon talle skoolgroepe uit sy ryke natuurkennis put.<\/p>\n
Hy was al sedert sy jare in Vanderbiljpark baie betrokke by die Voortrekker-beweging en die Afrikaanse Volksang- en Volkspelebeweging. Hy was vir baie jare die leier van die Seemeeu-volkspelelaer op Jeffreysbaai. Hy was een van die stigterslede van die Voortrekkers se Kaba selfbehoudkamp wat in die Kaba-vallei net buite Alexandria gehou word. Hy het van 1992 tot 2008 die veldkuns-afdeling van die kamp aangebied.<\/p>\n
Hy was \u2019n vaardige vryskutfotograaf wat sedert die 1950\u2019s duisende skool-, trou-, familie-, koerant- en kunsfoto\u2019s geneem het.<\/p>\n
Merkwaardig was Williams se vermo\u00eb om by te hou met tegnologiese veranderings. Hy het nog tot onlangs toe weekliks \u2019n e-pos nuusbrief met familienuus na die uitgebreide familie regoor die w\u00eareld gestuur. Hy kon gereeld via video-oproepe met sy kinders, kleinkinders en agterkleinkinders in Kanada, Amerika en Brittanje kommunikeer. <\/p>\n
Sy humorsin was welbekend en hy kon \u2019n geselskap aan die gang hou met \u2019n voortdurende vloei van grappies en staaltjies. Hy was lief om sy voertuie byname te gee. Sy laaste voertuig, \u2019n Daihatsu, was Ietermago. Sy selfgemaakte diefweringstelsel in Ietermago het bestaan uit \u2019n opgestopte likkewaan wat op die paneelbord gel\u00ea het. <\/p>\n
Williams word oorleef deur sy suster Anr\u00e9 en broer Japie. Sy broers Wilry en Muntingh is reeds oorlede. <\/p>\n
Hy word ook oorleef deur sy kinders William, Pieter, Henry, Fouch\u00e9 en Esther, asook 12 kleinkinders en 8 agterkleinkinders.<\/p>\n
Die teraardebestelling sal Saterdag 21 September om 09:00 wees by die familiekerkhof op die plaas Bergrivier tussen Thornhill en Loerie waar Williams groot geword het. Daarna volg \u2018n diens om 11:30 by die NG Kerk in Da Gamastraat, Jeffreysbaai, en \u2018n gedenkdiens 14:30 by die Jeffreysrus-aftreeoord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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