My parents were visiting us at the Dam for a week and on Friday the 17th of August my father called me early in the morning to inform me that his older brother – my uncle, De Wet Steyl passed away.
De Wet was the second oldest of four brothers and he was 83 years old. Over the Last Eight years he was suffering from a stroke and although he understood everything that was going on around him, he could not communicate with people, except for his immediate family with whom he developed a sort of coded communication.
De Wet was married to Nancy for 59 years and had three children Barbara Cathy and Christopher. 
Chris has been living in the USA for the last 20 years or more and he flew out to be with his mother for a few days.
On Tuesday afternoon at 14:30 a service was held in the chapel at Rosehaven where Christopher paid a moving tribute to his father.
