\u2019n Groot gees in die gemeenskap van Saldanha is die naweek oorlede. Dr. Constant Laubscher Neethling, wat jare lank in die dorp gepraktiseer het, is Saterdag (2 November) dood nadat pankreaskanker vroe\u00ebr by hom gediagnoseer is. Hy was 80 jaar oud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neethling het sy mediese studies in 1969 voltooi en in 1971 in Saldanha en Vredenburg in vennootskap met dr. Chris Liebenberg en dr. Benna de Jongh begin werk. Hy het in 1988 \u2019n vennootskap met dr. Kobus Bruwer aangegaan en ook as voorsitter van die Weskus-tak se mediese vereniging gedien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bruwer vertel dat hy destyds by die Vredenburg-hospitaal gewerk het en graag sy eie private praktyk wou open. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDr. Neethling het \u2019n eenmanpraktyk in Saldanha gehad en ek het in 1988 as vennoot by die praktyk begin werk. Dr. Neethling was te alle tye opgeruimd en het altyd tyd vir \u2019n grappie gehad. Hy het baie welsynwerk gedoen,\u201d vertel Bruwer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bruwer beskryf Neethling, wat welbekend in die hele omgewing en in perdrykringe was, as \u2019n baie wyse man en iemand by wie hy baie geleer het. \u201cEen ding wat my sal bybly, is jy neem nooit \u2019n groot besluit gou nie. Jy moet eers daaroor slaap, en dan kan jy jou besluit neem. Hy was gesond genoeg om eers op 70 jaar op te hou werk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy familie beskryf hom as iemand wat \u2019n stuitige humorsin gehad het. \u201cHy was lief vir mense en hul stories en sy huis was altyd oop vir mense, veral buitelug- en perdry- en diereliefhebbers. Sy hande het vir niks verkeerd gestaan nie, [hy] was definitief \u2019n boer wat altyd \u2019n plan gemaak het,\u201d meen die familie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sarie Koegelenberg, wat 30 jaar gelede as verpleegster saam met Neethling gewerk het, s\u00ea sy pasi\u00ebnte het altyd eerste gekom. \u201cHy was \u2019n mense-mens, altyd vriendelik en bedagsaam. Wanneer hy in die nag uitgeroep is vir pasi\u00ebnte in \u2019n noodgeval, was hy gou op sy pos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neethling het \u2019n vol lewe geleef en het deur die jare as voorsitter van die provinsiale hospitaal in die jare tagtig gedien, sowel as voorsitter van die Ruiterpad-vereniging van Suid-Afrika en is net voor sy dood erelidmaatskap toegeken. Hy het ook vir baie jare vrywilligerswerk by die Sandveld-hospies asook by die Vital Connection-sentrum vir bejaardes gedoen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Begrafnisdiens word Saterdag (9 November) om 11:00 in die Saldanha NG kerk gehou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neethling laat sy vrou, drie dogters en agt kleinkinders agter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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