\u201cOns het ons steunpilaar verloor \u2013 ons pa en eggenote, \u2019n gemeenskapsleier, \u2019n ywerige sportman, \u2019n kerkman en \u2019n jeugleier. Woorde sal nooit kan beskryf wat hy vir die hele gemeenskap beteken het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 s\u00ea raadslid Christophene Kearns n\u00e1 die skielike afsterwe van haar pa, die bekende Christiaan Abrahams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christiaan, beter bekend as Medal, is Saterdagaand by sy huis in Wellington oorlede. Sy familie vertel hy het die afgelope paar jaar met hartprobleme gesukkel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christiaan was \u2019n gebore en geto\u00eb Wellingtonner en het bykans sy hele lewe daarop gefokus om sy gemeenskap op te hef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy was ook \u2019n kranige sportman en het as rugbyspeler vir die Wellington- en Rosslyn-rugbyklubs asook Boland uitgestyg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christiaan is ook weens sy absolute toewyding aan rugby deur die SA rugbyunie (SARU) as een van sy sogenaamde <\/span>Legends<\/i> vereer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy was ook \u2019n stigterslid van Wellington se bekende klopsetroepe, die Hillcrest Starlights en Superstars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Christiaan was ook betrokke by die plaaslike politiek en was \u2019n wyksraadslid van die munisipaliteit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie ontwikkeling van die jeug was ook baie belangrik vir hom,\u201d onthul Christophene oor haar pa. \u201cHy het ges\u00ea hulle is die boublokke van ons toekoms en ons moet hierdie boublokke sterk maak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christiaan was ook lid van Weltevrede Sekond\u00ear se beheerliggaam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christophene het bygevoeg dat haar pa ook goed onthou sal word vir sy liefde vir goud, die juweliersware waarvoor hy so lief was om te dra, en sy s\u00ea hy het ook \u2019n \u201chart van goud\u201d gehad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christiaan word oorleef deur sy vrou, Josephine, hul kinders en die egpaar se kleinkinders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2019n Roudiens word vandag (Donderdag 11 Julie) 19:00 by die VGK Bergrivier gehou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saterdag is die besigtiging \u2013 ook by die VGK \u2013 van 08:30 tot 09:30 waarna die begrafnis sal plaasvind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cOns het ons steunpilaar verloor \u2013 ons pa en eggenote, \u2019n gemeenskapsleier, \u2019n ywerige sportman, \u2019n kerkman en \u2019n jeugleier. 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