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. »~ 0 [ Nok R January 27, 2006 | 39 | The bounty of living life for the sake of others _ | | BY SUZIE CHIODO C ces n i omm m | _ FOR THIS WEEK * ~ uk 4 < dpf R’ #oo A *_ 6 C :h No t .“,'? | _ BEAMSVILLEâ€"Lilian Hadsley sits in her 9R Lo ugs > P -' o * *~ ~ad 6 sail? x fl,ef‘ F | _ cozy room at Albright Manor in j $ ’_ a . â€" * // se rv " *A :‘9" wHes. . ) f ) Beamsville, looking around at the pla § & . s »., C9Â¥% 228 w88 a & m w 9 | she calls her ‘hotel‘. For her, the lu)l:ur?:us / A sal} 48 WPs y & ,ifit i 4. ; oo P ‘é‘ e o A l SiS Watchins tdhe;h‘ldl.-en gmw’;llg up and ( | _ care home is just another sign that God is â€"| Ay # * i soclr $ x * _ * it * 3 t ind o mh . Cl C csnSc sc=ce nestion wos the best | |â€" Tooune after ner ue fe hasdone | [te> e _W‘% ~A M o . ‘aA" th / P3 *./ A "! 7 p?rt of her job, she said. "They all met ‘ , throughout her farâ€"fromâ€"average life. $/ Y me "W. # Cean & ; $s OR ) gae * JC e | nice spouses becaussz _the}{‘were capable | The 85â€"yearâ€"old has had malari R / p° * P ie Lk P (i rolgp. "‘:3' &A 4‘~‘ * a Wislal â€" and clever," added Lilian. "They‘ve } dengue fever and s § â€"y®"‘ :44 ‘ $ + og» d uh + ns . g‘ § > unicalh S become ministers, school teachers, nursâ€" | ridd%:) on hOTSEbchIll(etlll-:rr(‘)?;ngl}iLsi};i:as ts e "l l § 4 waidh ie B + i+ > ; k ~BC~ " Wefi | â€" es and midwives. It‘s wonderful to see the 2 j l . * aich, + Apowne [ B § f £ » infested jungles. She has singleâ€"handedly hss " ” 4 738 C C 7 siâ€"ags ; ‘s.’i? 3 t _ 2 M children doing so well. |_ fed and educated 10 children, and proâ€" i Il pe lA i > "iee . mt fln P "w\ td t c TL omcs â€" = Many of the six girls and four boys now | _ vided spiritual sustenance to hundreds of _ | [ r y‘ digth e ~§â€"â€"¢8¢"% a cA on \Ur fl he4 )h ,}‘{\ M have famllles of'theu' own, but.they still people. $ Sxtp > ’ C 4#\1 y <P**. C ; * t 4â€" *"c J * m w keep in touch w.xth their ibu. Lilian gets It all started when Lilian was a young "‘" $ 6\+ ic % * a Angal tm 45 ' 5 ;{ * . 8 tnrtulzme 6w cards every Christmas, as well as letters I woman. While the dust was settling after i 3 c = l ~ "’\%‘@:fi PBA 90 i e "16 % J”ufs’ s& ¢ *, and even phone calls. She has also | _ WWII and the soldiers were coming . [ P es . ~â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" [ o. ~EH ° d o. ... hy °* & Te returned to Indonesia to visit. _ home, the adventurous 20â€"something '~ s oo it y -i & P flemA \ W Â¥ i0 "I didn‘t know what I was going to do was planning to leave for Indonesia, ':”_‘,:xf"?b e\ Ay l s : & ho" KB "Shal / or where I could live," said Lilian. "But When most women her age were more _ | WeR l9k â€" 4 g . : p % § Pt (W > ‘} {‘ : the Lord looks after us if we do the right | _ likely to get married and settle down, > .2 d dranch ° $ 7" y & 4 â€" | thing. And it all turned out right in the Lilian sacrificed everything. | Mellar f tV 39t % We f $ V °"B & U 14 â€" most wonderful way." |___ "I wanted to give my life to help peoâ€" * e U EVUR 3 " * . >® ind x Someone who knew Lilian as a young ple," she explained. : i i & | OV ""ad A 5 & 4 PR girl had kept her in mind all those years "I thought it was important that the s @" V mCV m 0 at. R ‘ \ !: ~< 60\ wl zs 4 she was in Indonesiaâ€" and left the retired | ichildren‘gera geod education." § t % ~\ y 9 0t $ . i w & missionary a substantial amount of And so Lilian boarded a US troop shi { 3i 8 | c > . gae d & . . us L agl o money in her will. and sailed for Indonesia as a Salvagosrl: ‘£ _ 'd;\ eA m h e ssloln.ll. P "I couldn‘t believe it â€" I got such a | _ Army brigadier. Beamsville resident Lilian Hadsley with some of the 10 children she helped to raise and educate during the years she spent living and working in | shock," recalled Lilian. "That‘s why L can | After working in the office in Java for Indonesia for the Salvation Army. The photo was taken sometime in the 19705. inulmrbecynee, . afford to stay at Albright Manor now. God | ?:\;irealcyéizzlizssgzatiar;)sferred to an island .It is hard to imagine how someone .__ Leaving the children was the hardest She also .knew the vah.le o_f‘food and look.e_d after me." f ©__ es withoth: wherf she felt with no knowledge of Indonesian culture | thing Lilian had to do when she came ate everything she was given in 7 Lilian now has eve)ryth}ng she needs at 1 psat beraa es ons'blpzop 5: could be so resourceful and fit in so well. | back to Canada in 1981. h Indonesia, no matter how strange it her fingertips â€" a café, a library, a gym, | vesu enough * \L']vith ‘12% or 14 churches â€" But a peek into Lilian‘s past explains a lot. "I missed them terribly," she said. "For | _ looked or tasted. This made her an and constant outings and activities. ’ sfentonhomenast ie al))ls:Nmonth She was raised in Vancouver during the | a year I couldn‘t eat at the table alone, instant hit with the women. B'ut one look.at her eyes will t.ell you n n nds fookin IOgCh?Id een them D.e.preyssmn. Money was scarce and because I was so used to eating with all "Right away I ate their food and Shf3d rather be in Indonesia â€" with memâ€" + } se renariny. ren and Lilian‘s father died when she was just the children. I sat in front of the TV enjoyed everything," Lilian remembered. ories of fish barbecue§ on the beach, § | | Lilian and her ne\n; family raised ani eight years old, so the children had to instead." (Moved the bean curd, alf @LHSEY sn wals .through yeet rte mend dorghligh)! | _ mals and grew their own PesetAble: help find food.' Little Lilian dug clams and With only three suitcases and hardly crispy. They used to watch me eating and processions down forestâ€"covered mounâ€" "We had peanuts and coconut trees, _ Shrimp on the beach and picked berries, at}y]one she kr?e»v, Lilian was consumed __| that made them happy." & ‘3‘251395 Pss e and lots of fruit," she said. "Banana tre’cS, doing everything she could so her family ol loneliness. She h_ad nothing to Kos Llllan'never regretted coming to 3 id erll.on. fSt men;lory. hs. th? DSgs papaya, pineapple, mango, passion fruit, _ Wouldn‘t go hungry. / ‘i/‘we on lbut l.\er Sglvauon Army pension â€" . Indonesia and never wanted to go home. ple, sai L1.lan. I have had the )o"y in my star fruit. We ate beautiful fresh corn and "I was so glad I had that experience," Was almost as if she was back where She was an orphan, having lost her mothâ€" heart of being able to help them. CaUg.ht fish from the lake." she said. "It helped me adjust overseas â€" I er at sixteen, and so "I had no home to be 5 W1th two horses, two dogs, a parrot, was used to having next to nothing." * homesick for." Instead, she became a | tcil:r?;gs’ dl‘:Cks and swans â€" not to menâ€" mother to the childrefl if‘ El.er care. They they m;li’etshifinf;l:key anfil Betty the pig â€" ’called h?r ‘ibu brigadier‘ ( lb‘ul mfanst 200." S hewas mmore like a mother‘) and one woman still refers to | her as ‘mama!. a