<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398101" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Grandma Lenie Brand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As one of the pioneers in the Vryburg district<br>she lived with her husband Danie Brand<br>(a second cousin of late President Jan Brand<br>of the Orange Free State Republic) <br>on the farm Welgemeen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When her husband passed away in 1938<br>grandma Lenie <br>took over the farming <br>and if work is a gift</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she was really blessed in it<br>as she wielded a pickaxe<br>digging holes along with her sons<br>and the labourers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">putting up fences, herded cattle<br>and still at fifty-six<br>milked cows, <br>if the workers did not turn up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today you would not expect this<br>of a fine woman, <br>who was really religious<br>farming by herself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the years<br>just before the Second World War<br>and she was one of the esteemed<br>farmers in the Vryburg district</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and she bought a Willis motorcar<br>and later a model t-Ford, <br>with which the family travelled to Vryburg<br>to do they’re shopping.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grandma Lenie was known<br>for her philanthropy<br>and her willingness to help, <br>lived as if every day<br>was a deed of love, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">was quite strict, <br>but also really fair<br>and still I remember<br>how she looked at me with shining eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398101" data-title="Grandma Lenie Brand de Gert Strydom" data-description="As one of the pioneers in the Vryburg district she lived with her husband Danie Brand (a second cousin of late President Jan Brand of the Orange Free State Republic) on the farm Welgemeen. When her husband passed away in 1938 grandma Lenie took..."></div> </div> </div>

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