Sy het die Here al gevra wat Sy plan is met haar dat sy s\u00f3 oud word, het \u2019n inwoner van die La Gratitude-aftreeoord in Durbanville verlede maand ges\u00ea met die viering van haar 103de verjaarsdag by die aftreeoord.<\/p>\n
Hildegard Serfontein is in 1920 \u2013 twee jaar n\u00e1 die einde van die Eerste W\u00eareldoorlog en die Groot Griep (Spaanse griep) \u2013 in Tulbagh gebore en het daarna nie net die Tweede W\u00eareldoorlog, die Tulbagh-aardbewing in 1969 en die Covid-19-pandemie in haar 100ste jaar in 2020 oorleef nie, maar lyk boonop nie \u2019n dag ouer as 80 nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie Here se boodskap aan my was dat ek Hom moet verheerlik en Sy boodskap moet uitdra aan ander. Dis so wonderlik dat die Here vir my as nietige mens in Sy Koninkryk gebruik om \u2019n getuie te wees,\u201d het sy in \u2019n kraakhelder stem in \u2019n toespraak by \u2019n spesiale verjaardagtee ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n
Verskeie inwoners \u2013 die meeste in die tagtig en negentig \u2013 en twee van haar drie seuns was onder die gaste. <\/p>\n
Sy is al 33 jaar \u2019n inwoner van die La Gratitude-aftreeoord, wat \u2019n groot plakkaat by die ingang opgesit het om di\u00e9 mylpaal te vier. <\/p>\n
\u201cDis die heerlikste verrassing; ek het niks hiervan geweet nie, en dis \u2019n teken van die liefde wat ek in my lewe ontvang.\u201d<\/p>\n
Op \u2019n vraag wat haar geheim vir haar lang lewe is, het sy ges\u00ea \u201cdis se\u00ebn en die genade van die Here\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOm \u2019n kind van die Here te wees, is die grootste vreugde in my lewe,\u201d het sy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n
Positiewe denke en \u2019n gesonde lewenstyl het ook bygedra. <\/p>\n
Sy het nog tot op 86 jaar tennis gespeel en gereeld geswem \u2013 later in die swembad gestap. Sy het haar ook met musiek \u2013 veral klassieke musiek en koormusiek \u2013 en blomme omring. <\/p>\n
Serfontein, \u2019n musiekonderwyseres van beroep in die noordelike voorstede van Kaapstad, was op haar dag \u2019n kranige beoordelaar van blommeskoue. <\/p>\n
Serfontein was sedert 1963 \u2019n lid van en beoordelaar vir die Wes-Kaapse Blomme\u00adrangskikkings\u00advereniging, asook erelid sedert 2010, en het gereeld internasionaal deelgeneem. Sy is ook as gas na verskeie internasionale blommeskoue genooi.<\/p>\n
Haar pa is in 1903 as sendeling deur die Rhynse Kerk van Duitsland na Suid-Afrika gestuur en is twee jaar later getroud met sy liefde, wat van Duitsland by hom in Suid-Afrika aangesluit het.<\/p>\n
Serfontein is die jongste en enigste oorlewende van die Holtzapfel-gesin se agt kinders. \u201cMusiek was \u2019n groot deel van ons familielewe en het later gelei tot \u2019n vierstemmige koor, wat ons tydverdryf was,\u201d het sy met haar 100ste verjaarsdag verklap. <\/p>\n
Hulle was \u2019n hegte gesin. <\/p>\n
\u201cDie basiese kenmerke van \u2019n huisgesin was by almal van ons teenwoordig \u2013 respek vir mekaar, liefde, eerlikheid en bedagsaamheid, maar die grootste is die liefde,\u201d s\u00ea sy. <\/p>\n
Sy is ook langer as 80 jaar \u2013 sedert 1941 \u2013 \u2019n intekenaar van Die Burger <\/i>en lees nog daagliks haar koerant. <\/p>\n
Sy het in 1938 gematrikuleer, maar eers met haar 50-jaar-re\u00fcnie besef sy was in haar matriekjaar die dux-leerder. Sy was veral ook lief om konfyt te kook en speel graag orrel.<\/p>\n
Sy het drie seuns, dr. Hein Ferreira (77) van Engeland, dr. Johann Ferreira (75) van Wepener in die Vrystaat en Fritz Ferreira (66) van Somerset-Wes, asook agt kleinkinders en vier agterkleinkinders.<\/p>\n
\n Tygerburger<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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