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Gezina Elzinga’s bequest
Gezina Elzinga’s bequest
We held a ceremony to celebrate completion of our Gezina seating on Monday, March 30. It was a chance to thank those who made her bequest become a reality. Gezina was a member of the Napier Tramping Club, who lived in Switzerland, running her English Language School. She loved to return to New Zealand to visit friends and tramp with us. Unfortunately, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009, and died in April 2012. Gezina was a colourful person, in the literal and figurative sense, wearing her pink baseball cap with sequins on tramps. She loved people, teaching and travel is the inscription on her gravestone in Whangarei, beside her mother.
Her bequest to the Napier Tramping Club was one of many; others, for example, were to Cranford Hospice and the Napier City Council. The seat in the Tironui Reserve, Taradale is an asset to the community and the great news is that Napier City Council will be adding native planting to soften the fencing. This is scheduled in June/July. Lance Titter from the council thanked the Napier Tramping Club for this contribution to the reserve.
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