Longtime CC Board Member Nelly Westerhoff Dies at 80
Nelly’s departure coincided with Spring’s arrival. In her garden, tulips bloomed as orioles flashed overhead in the new green canopy. Nelly cultivated her garden through the seasons into a place full of beauty and life.
During her service on the Christian Courier Board, Nelly nurtured Christian writers and worldviews and saw its pages filled with their ideas. Nelly believed this work could help unite the community and share valuable insights.
Her love of learning personal stories let Nelly discover new landscapes and histories. She understood that if tended to (like her garden), words can create colour and feeling, and shift the way we interact with our messy world. They give voice to empathy, sadness and frustration; words evoke our laughter, our joy and above all, let people we love know it well.
Nelly is now off exploring her heavenly home. We are left with a world made more wonderful by her presence, ready to continue her service to gardens, Christian Courier, and the stories alive in those around us. Nelly’s life inspires us to seek the “good stuff,” always extending our wonder to new people and places.
By AJ Regnerus & Jenelle Maillet, Nelly & her husband Ceus’s grandchildren.
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