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Norman and Adelaide got married on 10 February 1973 and celebrated their Ruby
anniversary this year. They were married in the Virginia Street congregation (Zonnebloem).
They have two children, a son Adrian and a daughter Melanie. Norman and Adelaide are also
blessed with four grandchildren.
If you could be a tree, which tree would you like to be? The response was specifi c and the
reasoning well thought through. “I would choose to be a Palm tree. It produces dates for those
who are hungry and shade for those who need rest. When there’s a storm the leaves drop down
and when the storm is over the leaves rise again to form a perfect canopy once more.”
When asked if he eats all his veggies at dinner time, he tried to throw me a curve ball. “I eat all
the veggies my wife dishes for me.” A very clever response indeed. After forty years of marriage
your wife knows exactly which veggies you do not eat, so which veggies would his wife
not dish up for him? Yep ... he doesn’t like cabbage and caulifl ower. His favourite veggies are
peas and carrots.
What was the most embarrassing experience in his life? That would be when he was the Rector
of the Lotus River West congregation and the Apostle Barnes (now DA) was to visit the
congregation. All the preparations were done and on the Sunday morning he arranged with
one of the ministers in the congregation to, as normal practice, keep a seat open in the front of
the church for the Apostle’s wife. A specifi c seat was identifi ed for this purpose. The Monday
morning he received a call from the Bishop who requested him to call the Apostle. The Apostle
explained to him that when on the altar, he always tries to look for his wife in the congregation
and that he was unable to fi nd her seated in the congregation during the service. (Three tier
seating) It so happened that the seat which was supposed to be kept open for the Apostle’s wife
was taken by someone else and no seat was kept for her. Unaware of the arrangements, and
possibly not knowing the Apostle’s wife, she was directed to another seat as the church would
have been fi lled to capacity by then.
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