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Betsie Verwoerd
Wife of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Elizabeth "Betsie" Verwoerd (née Schoombee; 17 May – 29 February ) was the spouse of the Prime Minister of South Africa from 2 September until the assassination of her husband Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September
Betsie was of Danish descent and born on 17 May to Wynand Johannes and Anna Francina Susanna (née Naude) Schoombee in Middelburg in the Cape Colony.
Betsie met her future husband while both were attending Stellenbosch University in the early s. They were married in Hamburg, Germany, where Verwoerd was studying, on 7 January The couple returned to the Union of South Africa in They had five sons (Wilhelm Johannes Verwoerd, born 5 September ; Daniel Wynand Verwoerd, 19 November ; Hendrik Frans Verwoerd, born 11 August ; Christiaan Andries Verwoerd, 10 September ; and Wynand Schoombee Verwoerd, 28 June ) and two daughters (Anna Verwoerd, born 9 March ; and Elsabet Verwoerd, 26 July ).
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