Maria Francina Helene Welman

An energetic, hard working woman, intelligent but challenged at school by hyperactive attention deficiency order. Mom's thoughts jump from one task to another. Her great compassion and big heart made her suited to missionary work. Loyal, determined, supportive, an organiser and leader who would work for church or community projects. Always on the side of the underdog.

A talented woman in all the arts of the virtues of a good wife of her time, sewing, baking, cooking, knitting, crocheting etc. an imaginative mother who with her loving nature has been a mother figure, and still is a mother figure for many women, some not much younger than she is. Her hospitality resulted in a home like Paddington Cross station, with people constantly coming in and out of our lives.. Her child-like innocence accepting and trusting everyone who walked through the doors of her home.

A survivor's spirit, and a joie de vivre of note, dependent on a wheelchair, in her old age, but still actively gardening, and keeping house.

What an example to us all.