Talle mense het afskeid geneem van die geliefde en gerespek\u00adteerde balju van Worcester, Simon Hugo Kilian (70), oftewel Basie, soos talle hom geken het.<\/p>\n
Kilian, wat al bykans vier dekades lank die balju van Worcester was, is op 22 September n\u00e1 \u2019n kort siekte oorlede nadat hy aan natuurlike oorsake weens sy hart in \u2019n plaaslike hospitaal oorlede is.<\/p>\n
Lolla Nefdt, kantoorbestuurder by die plaaslike balju, vertel sy het sedert 2007 nou saam met Kilian gewerk.<\/p>\n
\u201cHy was \u2019n fantastiese mens. Hy was \u2019n mentor en het altyd geweet hoe om \u2019n mens goed te laat voel. Hy het soveel lewens geraak en hy was bitter goed vir my,\u201d verduidelik Nefdt.<\/p>\n
Die nuus van sy afsterwe het skokgolwe deur die gemeenskap gestuur. <\/p>\n
\u201cDit was vir ons \u2019n groot skok. Hy is onlangs in die hospitaal opgeneem en is weer ontslaan. Hy is daarna weer opgeneem, maar het ongelukkig in die hospitaal gesterf. Dis steeds moeilik om te verwerk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kilian, wat sy matriekloopbaan aan HTS Drostdy voltooi het, het by sy pa, Potjie, die leisels oorgeneem by die baljukantoor (die destydse geregsbode) en het \u2019n passie gehad vir wat hy gedoen het.<\/p>\n
Kilian was ook aan die stuur van sake by die Christelike Afhanklikheids\u00addiens (CAD) en het deur sy eie struikel met alkoholmisbruik in sy jonger dae hier ander gehelp en gelei. Hy was nie net Worcester se voorsitter nie, maar het ook provinsiaal en nasionaal aan die hoof van hierdie organisasie gestaan.<\/p>\n
In Hugo se eie getuienis het hy al gepraat van hartkwale toe hy jonger was. Sy seun, Hugo, vertel dat sy afsterwe \u2019n groot leemte laat, hoewel hulle as familie daarop voor\u00adbereid was. <\/p>\n
\u201cHoewel die dood van \u2019n geliefde altyd \u2019n groot, onverwagse skok bly en \u2019n groot leemte laat wat nooit ooit weer gevul sal kan word nie, was ons in \u2019n mate redelik voorbereid op die ergste. Hartversaking is in Mei by my pa gediagnoseer, maar hy was nog steeds voltyds aktief betrokke by sy werk as balju.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn September is ons deur sy dokter meegedeel dat hulle werklik met hul rug teen die muur staan en daar nie medies gewys iets is wat hulle verder vir hom kon doen nie. Ten spyte van die beste sorg moontlik het sy toestand vererger en het ons naaste familie en kleinkinders die geleentheid gehad om tyd saam met hom deur te bring voor sy afsterwe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kilian en sy vrou, Ron\u00e9l, was vanjaar ook 48 jaar getroud en het twee kinders in die lewe gebring, Hugo en Roz\u00e9l Pienaar. Roz\u00e9l is tragies in 2004 weens leukemie oorlede. Hulle het ook vier kleinkinders.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns wil graag vir dr. Louis van Zyl en die MediClinic-personeel vir hul bystand bedank. Dankie ook vir al die gebede, besoeke, ondersteuning en boodskappe,\u201d voeg Hugo by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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