The much-loved teacher is raising the sum for her children
A fundraiser has been launched to help get a Lincoln man back to his home country of South Africa so he can “be with his father and siblings to allow him to grieve the loss of his mother.”
Throughout the day and night her condition unfortunately declined and she was placed on a ventilator as she could no longer breathe on her own, before she sadly died days later. “We hope to raise enough funds for air tickets/plane tickets and to help ease some of the daily expenses the family will incur with the loss of work during this time.
In tribute to his mum, Anthony said: “Katrien was well known as the neighborhood mother. She would never hear of a person being hungry without making them something to eat.“Katrien always had kind and loving words to share when ever I was sad. She helped my wife through the hardest year of her life after she lost her mother last year. Whatever you or anyone needed, she was always there.