Een van Worcester se mees geliefde inwoners het Sondag (1 Desember) \u2019n besonderse mylpaal in haar lewe behaal toe sy haar 100ste verjaardag saam met familie en vriende gevier het.<\/p>\n
Maria Matthews, oftewel Ant Tossie of Suster \u2013 soos sy geliefd onder baie bekendstaan \u2013 het Sondagmiddag die koppe behoorlik laat draai toe sy onder luide toejuiging in \u2019n Pontiac, wat uit die jare sewentig dateer \u2013 begelei deur motorfietsryers van die Worcester Bikers \u2013 na Kleinplasie vervoer is, waar \u2019n glansgeleentheid op haar gewag het.<\/p>\n
Uitgevat met \u2019n tyara op die hoof geplant, het Suster op pad na die verrigtinge kompleet soos \u2019n koninklike vir almal wat haar toegejuig het, vanuit die antieke motor gewuif.<\/p>\n
Ant Tossie is 100 jaar gelede in Tulbagh gebore en het tot in haar tienerjare saam met haar ouers, wyle Josef (Soppie) en Johanna Heyns, en haar (Ant Tossie se) vyf sibbe (drie broers en twee susters) op die plaas Twee Jonge Gezellen in Tulbagh gewoon. <\/p>\n
Ant Tossie was die oudste. Al haar sibbe is reeds oorlede.<\/p>\n
Sy s\u00ea aan Standard Breederivier Gazette<\/span> sy was maar 16 jaar oud toe sy haar sakke gepak en Worcester toe verhuis het. In Worcester het sy vir 40 jaar as huishulp by die Kroone-gesin in Riebeeckstraat gewerk.<\/p>\n Terwyl sy daar gewerk het, het sy gereeld vir haar ouers geld Tulbagh toe gestuur.<\/p>\n Volgens Ant Tossie het sy haar man, John Matthews, ontmoet terwyl sy in Worcester gewerk het. \u201cHy was \u2019n baie liewe man. Ons het \u2019n baie lieflike lewe saam met mekaar gehad.\u201d<\/p>\n Ant Tossie en Oom John het \u2019n aangenome dogter, Jacoba Matthews, wat hulle soos hul eie grootgemaak het. <\/p>\n Jacoba, \u2019n oud-onderwyseres, versorg tot vandag toe nog vir Ant Tossie. <\/p>\n Ant Tossie s\u00ea Oom John was iets in die sestig toe hy haar ontval het. <\/p>\n Volgens haar lees sy tot vandag toe nog gereeld koerante en leesboeke. Sy s\u00ea sy is boonop baie lief vir gesels. Ant Tossie hou ook daarvan om Saterdagmiddae na langarm-musiek op die gemeenskapsradiostasie Vallei FM te luister. Haar gunsteling-liedjie is \u201cJaloers Bokkie\u201d.<\/p>\n Volgens Ant Tossie skort absoluut niks met haar gesondheid nie. \u201cEk het nooit gerook of gedrink nie, so ek voel baie gesond. Ek is baie dankbaar vir die Here vir die 100 jaar.\u201d<\/p>\n Sy s\u00ea een van haar gunsteling-Bybelverse is: \u201cEer jou vader en jou moeder sodat dit met jou goed mag gaan en jy lank mag lewe op aarde.\u201d <\/p>\n Ant Tossie s\u00ea dit is presies wat sy gedoen het.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Een van Worcester se mees geliefde inwoners het Sondag (1 Desember) \u2019n besonderse mylpaal in haar lewe behaal toe sy haar 100ste verjaardag saam met familie en vriende gevier 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