Jupiter 39's Wife

In Memoriam

(5 Dec 1943 - 5 Feb 2000)

   My late beloved wife is a Javanese woman from Yogyakarta and her name is Jukalu or Yukalu (pronounced You-kah-lew).  It doesn't seem a usual name for an average Javanese woman, but  she also has possessed another given name: Geertruida (the equivalent for Gertrude in English), a name given to her by her own father when she was christened just before we got married on November 22, 1965 in Yogyakarta.

   I was stationed at Adisutjipto Air Force Base the time I married her. We spent another 5 years living at the airbase before we moved to Jakarta in 1970. We lived happily thereafter even until she began to seriously complain about her physical well-beings, and the doctor cautiously pronounced her as a renal patient  after suffering from diabetes mellitus for almost 15 years.

One of my initial intention of posting my home page for the first time on the Web server (done at Tripod.com in 1997), was to express my full hope for the possible recovery of my wife from her chronic illness, a "terminal kidney failure" in medical terms.  For that reason she had to undergo haemodialysis three times a week since March 1995.  She was very determined in her faith to live longer by the help of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. She seemed to be longing for her first daughter, Nita, to get married and have a baby while she was still with us, and by God's will she did achieve all of her wishes. On February 5, 2000, she passed away at the age of 56, only after suffering complications from a light stroke for 5 days.  Praise God !