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Mrs Elselyn Harriette Angelique (Es) Fa Si Oen died in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands yesterday, on 14 February 2025, at the age of 109 years and 363 days. She was born in Nieuw-Amsterdam, Commewijne, Suriname (then part of the Netherlands) on 17 February 1915.

May she rest in peace.

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Tante Es, oudste inwoner van Amsterdam, op 109-jarige leeftijd overleden

Elselyn Harriette Angelique Fa Si Oen, die bij veel mensen bekendstond als Tante Es, uit Zuid is vanmorgen overleden. Ze is 109 jaar oud geworden. 

Foto: NH Nieuws / AT5

Dat bevestigt de Koningskerk in Watergraafsmeer, waar Fa Si Oen een prominent lid was. De oudste inwoner van Amsterdam zou eigenlijk maandag 110 worden en daarom zou er een verjaardagsdienst in de kerk plaatsvinden.

 

"Ik heb er gemengde gevoelens bij, maar ook dankbaarheid"

Dominee Koningskerk

De dominee van de kerk zegt dat de bijeenkomst maandag wel doorgaat, maar dan als herdenkingsbijeenkomst. Hij denkt dat het dubbel gaat zijn. "Ik heb er gemengde gevoelens bij, maar ook dankbaarheid." De dominee vertelt dat Fa Si Oen nog vaak in de kerk kwam. "Ze heeft ook nog orgel bespeeld. Ze was helder in haar denken en had over de toekomst een uitgesproken visie, daar praatte ze met jongeren over."

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Fa Si Oen werd geboren in het Surinaamse Nieuw-Amsterdam. In 1957 kwam ze naar Nederland. In 2023 kreeg ze de Amsterdamse heldenspeld, een onderscheiding voor mensen die zich met hart en ziel voor anderen inzetten. Ze keek graag naar sport en was een trouwe fan van Ajax. In 2023 bezocht ze op uitnodiging van de club een Ajax-wedstrijd in de Johan Cruijff Arena.

Tante Es wordt volgens de dominee begraven in Zeist. Waarschijnlijk vindt er volgende week, naast de dienst op maandag, in de Koningskerk ook nog een afscheidsdienst op een andere dag plaats.

AT5 maakte in 2023 onderstaande reportage over Tante Es.

Overduidelijk misschien.


   
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RIP Ms. Elselyn Harriette Angelique Fa Si Oen.

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She is the 3rd oldest emigrant in the history of Suriname and the 54th oldest ecclesiastical person in history, she was the 6th oldest alive.

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May she RIP. 🙁

Out of curiosity: Had she lived to age 110 (an extra three days), what race would she have been validated as?


   
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@futurist You are always making the same kind of unnecessary questions. And I think it's really obvious to know that this woman was a mix of races...


   
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But that was exactly why he asked, since she was a mix of races, which race would she be included in?


   
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@diego As simple as including her as mix. And if you want to be more specific, african-asian mix.

But I don't think is necessary to classify people into races. Primarily because the term "race" is too vague. What is a race? How many races are? This is not very clear... And it is very polemic. And Futurist tends to ask about races mos of the time. So why this importance to races?


   
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I'm asking because LQ (and the GRG) classify people by race, as does the US Census. I don't know if LQ actually allows SCs to be listed as more than one race--does it?


   
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Posted by: @futurist

I'm asking because LQ (and the GRG) classify people by race, as does the US Census. I don't know if LQ actually allows SCs to be listed as more than one race--does it?

Exactly, I also understood that as being the reason for the question, it is an interesting question indeed, but I believe that LQ, GRG and other research bodies would see how it is in the documentation, if there is this information there they would have an idea of ​​how to classify Es Fa Si Oen.

 


   
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I don't know if Suriname and/or the Netherlands actually officially classified people by race like the US does, though.


   
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Posted by: @futurist

I don't know if Suriname and/or the Netherlands actually officially classified people by race like the US does, though.

I don't have that information either.

 


   
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