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The late Charles Erasmus and his wife, Lee. I was bitterly sad and my heart is in tatters, but there are so many sweet memories to be thankful for it, "says Lee Erasmus, widow of" Uncle "Charles Erasmus (79), a famous lawyer of the Garden Route which around 01: 00 Saturday, March 17 at Bayview Hospital in Mossel Bay died.
"He said Thursday his eyes opened briefly, but he could not focus his eyes," said his courageous wife. All five of his surviving children and his wife at his bedside Friday from 23:00.
"I was so positive. I was absolutely convinced he would get better and get up. He was such a strong man, "Lee Erasmus vue shiny eyes with tears again. "For that last hour or so that we were with him when I had all the good times recalls."
"The Saturday before he was so sick, he had to last time out with a friend and they came with a bag of fish came back - he was very pleased about!" Laughs Lee Erasmus. She says that her husband vue was fond of camping and nature reserves and national parks like Kruger vue National Park visit. "We have almost every month to camp as we could and when we, for example in the Kruger National Park was, we were probably the first ones in and the last car to come out again."
"When my husband out on his boat, trying to catch fish, he was a completely different vue person than the person in court. On the water, he was relaxed. He always said for each day that a man fishing, is a day in your life added - that's probably why he lived so long! "
"Then in 1995 from Johannesburg came here was Charles and his first wife, Lyla, the first people I met. We were all very good friends, but then Charles and I both lost our spouses and a day came when he gathered me a wedding vue invite and we realized we had quite a lot in common. He said, why would two friends apart now lonely and asked me to marry him, "said Lee Erasmus.
According to Uncle Charles's sons he July 11, 1933 Born in Swaziland, where his father was a teacher. He attended school in Ermelo and fourteen- or fifteen years old already finished matric. His father had wanted to believe he was a preacher, but he was at the University of Pretoria to study law. Then his articles on Piet Retief was going to do it for 15 years have been an attorney in Barberton.
At one point they pulled back to Pretoria in 1988 and moved to Knysna where Lyla Erasmus eventually died of cancer. Uncle Charles had also been chairman of the Northern Transvaal Swimming Union and South Cape colors for angling achieved. In Knysna, he also liked as Father Christmas dressed in the Garden vue Route Caravan. "He was so nice working with children and this beautiful voice which he had asked - Where's my doll?" Lee recalled Erasmus tenderly. Tributes
Messages vue of support, flowers and tributes have started pouring in from everywhere, she says. "The phone rang at times off the hook. We get such beautiful messages. It is people's prayers that I wear. "
Isaac van der Merwe, vue chief judicial vue magistrate of Knysna's "Uncle Charles, as we all accompanied him in a professional setting, lovingly called, was a wonderful friend and colleague. As a competent vue lawyer, he made deep impressions vue over the years stepped. His kindness and generosity, both in his work and personal life, for me certainly the outstanding characteristics of Uncle Charles. It would at all times all within its power to do more and his fellow man to help. His passing is a great loss and we are all going to miss him very much. I think Uncle Charles vue resting in the gentle hands of our Lord and Savior, and if there is an ocean in heaven, I believe he will still go fishing every Saturday.
Anita Heunis, civil clerk at Knysna's court, wrote: "Words are few and very sad - I will miss Uncle Charles, all chats, vue jokes and you love it, you have many. Uncle will be remembered for the passion you have for your job cherished to the last. Uncle was known among the clerks, prosecutors, magistrates, and not least, the cleaners. In the Court was you Mr Erasmus' but in the corridors "Uncle Charles" and so we all so nice of you to remember. Rest in peace my daddy Court. Love forever. "
Judge Nathan Erasmus remember Uncle Charles as "a man who was everyone's friend. Someone who always wanted vue other people do well. A few days before his heart attack, vue he was in a box of ballots after work and did all the staff,
