\u2019n Oupa van Paarl-Oos het onlangs sy 80ste verjaarsdag gevier, en is nog springlewendig en elke dag druk besig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oom Frans Williams loop dalk hoog in jare, maar hy is nog jonk van gees, fiks en werk steeds elke dag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy vertel hy het in 1996 \u2013 dit is nou 27 jaar gelede \u2013 by Neil Lyners, die eienaar van Lyners Engineering, begin werk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Oom Frans het hy oor die meer as twee dekades so te s\u00ea deel van die Lyners-familie geword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is baie lief vir mense en ek hou van praat en werk. Ek het al die jare werkies vir hom gedoen. Ek het pype gel\u00ea en aanmekaar gesit, tuingemaak en geplant. Al die jare doen ek net my werk wat hy my gee. Sy vrou en kinders \u2013 hulle almal \u2013 is lief vir my, want ek het nie wat hulle het nie en hul harte is altyd oop. Hulle behandel my en praat met my altyd met respek en eer my.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het by die eerste huis wat hy (Neil) gehad het, begin werk en die grond daar was baie ongelyk. Hy het \u2019n vragmotor vol blomme gekoop en ek het al daai blomme alleen geplant. Ek het die grond gelyk gemaak en pype aangel\u00ea vir sy blomtuin en na die tuin omgesien.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oom Frans vertel hy is in Noorder Paarl gebore en het op Perdeberg-plaas grootgeword. Hy het vyf seuns, van wie drie oorlede is. Hy voeg by sy vrou, Susan, het al jare gelede gesterf. Hulle was 47 jaar getroud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy grootste vreugde vandag, buiten sy werk, is sy nege kleinkinders en elf agterkleinkinders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oom Frans s\u00ea hy ry baie fiets en dit hou hom fiks. Hy het op 1 Augustus verjaar en voel nie \u2019n dag ouer nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is bly die Here het my al die jare gespaar. Ek gaan baie kerk toe en leer baie daar. Die Here is genadig vir my, want daar is baie wat nie die ouderdom behaal wat ek is nie. Ek voel soos iemand wat 15 of 16 jaar oud is. Ek het nog nooit oud gevoel nie. Ek het my maar altyd op my plek gehou \u2013 gewerk en geoefen. Baie mense s\u00ea ek werk hard, maar vir my voel dit nie of ek hard werk nie. Ek het so grootgeword.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir Lyners is dit \u2019n voorreg om al die jare, en nog steeds, \u2019n pad saam met Oom Frans te stap. Lyners beskryf hom as \u2019n Chuck Norris, \u2019n Amerikaanse gevegskunstenaar en akteur, wat skrik vir niks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFrans is beyond<\/span> \u2019n ingenieur met praktiese ervaring \u2013 die mees komplekse versterking en verskuiwing kan hy so eenvoudig as moontlik maak. Hy ken nie sy eie kragte nie. Hy ken van leverage<\/span>, buigmomente, strength of materials<\/span>, breaking point<\/span>, potensiaal \u2013 hy maak my skaam met sy praktiese ervaring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVir Frans stel jy die eindproduk ten doel en hy doen dit metodies. Moenie vir hom s\u00ea \u2018plant di\u00e9 plantjie daar en dan wil ek dat h\u00ea nie\u2019. Frans sal s\u00ea, \u2018meneer, dit gaan nie werk nie\u2019. S\u00ea vir hom \u2018Ek wil \u2019n wingerd h\u00ea\u2019, dan sal hy \u2019n wingerd vir jou cultivate<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oom Frans s\u00ea hy sal aanhou werk totdat hy nie meer kan nie, maar vir eers sien hy uit na die volgende 80 jaar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2019n Oupa van Paarl-Oos het onlangs sy 80ste verjaarsdag gevier, en is nog springlewendig en elke dag druk 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