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Rawsonville het vandeesweek hartseer afskeid van een van die dorp se jare lange steunpilare geneem.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ockert Smit van Chrisma Slaghuis<\/a> is die afgelope Sondag (15 Maart) n\u00e1 ‘n siekte oorlede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hy woon reeds sedert sewejarige ouderdom op die dorp en het Chrisma Slaghuis by sy ouers, oom Smittie en tannie Kitty, op 28-jarige ouderdom oorgeneem. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ockert was ‘n man van wysheid en integriteit. Hy het ‘n lewe geleef wat ge- kenmerk is deur harde werk, eerlikheid en omgee vir ander. Hy het mense met respek behandel en het ‘n diep indruk gelaat op familie, vriende en almal wat sy pad gekruis het. Al is hy nie meer fisies by ons nie, leef sy nalatenskap voort in die waardes wat hy oorgedra het, die liefde wat hy gedeel het en die herinneringe wat ons vir altyd sal koester,” het sy familie aan Standard ges\u00ea.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Familieman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Ockert was ‘n vader vir sy gesin en familie, wat hy geleer het om God te vertrou, so die familie stap aan met alles wat hy in ons harte gelos het.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hy laat agter sy vrou, Magriet, sy suster, Maggie, 18 kinders in die familie vir wie hy ‘n pa-figuur was asook oupa vir hul 16 kinders. Daar is ‘n bykomende 16 ‘kinders’ \u2013 sy werksmense wat deel van die familie geword het.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ons is baie dankbaar vir die begrafnisdienste wat ons met deernis deur die proses gehelp het, asook vir Johein Vis- ser en Carina Jacobs van die nooddienste wat ons met soveel respek en liefde behandel het,” het een van Smit se dogters Jo-Ann Janse van Rensburg ges\u00ea.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Met groot hartseer neem ons afskeid van Oom Ockert, ‘n ware legende van Rawsonville. Oom Ockert was nie net ‘n bekende gesig in ons dorp nie, maar iemand wat oor baie jare ‘n groot rol gespeel het in die bou van ‘n gemeenskap waar mense mekaar ken, ondersteun en respekteer,” skryf Die Stalle-restaurant op Facebook.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eerbetoon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Vir ons by Die Stalle was Oom Ockert ook deel van ons storie. Die vleis wat ons met trots by Die Stalle bedien, kom van Oom Ockert se slaghuis \u2013 Chrisma Slag- huis. Sy passie vir kwaliteit, harde werk en trots in sy werk was iets wat almal kon sien en waardeer. Maar vir ons was hy meer as dit. Ons gaan Oom Ockert se kuiertjies hier by Die Stalle, sy stories en al die mooi oomblikke wat ons saam gevier het baie mis.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Eike-restaurant het ook sy eer betoon: “Ockert Smit was soveel meer as net die man agter Chrisma Slaghuis,hy was ‘n bekende en geliefde gesig hier by ons by Die Eike. Met sy rustige teenwoordigheid kon hy mense tuis laat voel. Hy het nooit gehuiwer om ‘n helpende hand uit te steek waar daar nood was nie. Ons harte en gebede is by sy familie, vriende, personeel en die hele gemeenskap. Mag die diep wortels wat hy geplant het nog lank voortleef in die mense en plekke wat hy aangeraak het.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25d8\u2009Smit se lewe word komende Sondag (22 Maart) om 11:00 by die Stalle-restaurant in Rawsonville <\/a>gevier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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