Christina Maria Te Brinke

Christina Maria Tebrinke of Agassiz B.C. passed away at the age of 98 on Wednesday, August 5, 2026 at Cheam Village Care Home. Christina was born in Amsterdam, Holland on September 8, 1927. She finished elementary school at age 13 and entered a trade school for sewing. After finishing school she worked in a factory making ladies coats until the age of 23. In April of 1951 she immigrated to Canada along with her parents and sister, Sophia. For two years she worked as a housekeeper for Menholm nursing home in Chilliwack, B.C. along with picking beans, raspberries and strawberries.

She met John Te Brinke in 1952 and married him in May of 1953. Their married life began in a rented Dairy farm in Agassiz on Walker Road. The farm had a big house so they boarded two or three young immigrants. This home is where her four sons, John, Henry, Alex, and Paul were born. Christina also became a founding member of the First Christian Reformed Church Chilliwack in 1952.

In 1959 they moved to their first purchased Dairy Farm on Hamilton road in Agassiz, B.C. In 1960 Neal was born and Christina's family became founding members of the Agassiz Christian Reformed Church. In 1965 Christina was blessed with the birth of her daughter Krista. In 1971 they moved into a new house on Limbert Road, and 1986 into Fooks Road house. In the 1970's they started a new lifestyle hay farming in Cawston, BC, with many trips over the Hope Princeton Highway until 1990. In 2006 her husband, John, passed away. Together they celebrated 53 years of marriage. In 2008 Christina moved to Elm Road and was regularly seen walking the streets a few times very day with her walker.

Christina was known for her charitable heart, her hospitality, cooking for others, inviting friends over for visits, or to play cards, and for always sending encouragement cards to her friends, family, and neighbourhood. She was a member of TOPS for 30 years, she was very competive and entered entries into Agassiz Fall Fair until she was well into her 90's. She devoted many hours of volunteer service to the community thrift store and the Bibles for Missions Thrift Store until into her 80's. Sewing was always a part of her life, with the sewing machine still sitting in her dining room until she moved into Cheam Village in April. She sewed all kinds of clothes for kids or adults, tea cozies, stuffies, lots of alterations for others, etc. She was a member of the quilting group that met in Harrison for 5 years starting in 2015, and after that she just stayed at home and sewed 100's of queen size quilt tops for the quilting group. She retired from sewing quilt tops when she turned 90, and then started sewing flannel baby quilts until she was 96.

Her faith and love for God was very important to her, and she loved reading the Bible and devotionals, listening to sermons on TV, and listening to worship music.

Christina is predeceased by her parents Cornelis and Willemina, her brothers Alex and Cornelis, and her sisters Corey and Sophia. She leaves behind her six children, 17 grandchildren, and 34 great grandchildren.

A Celebration of Life will be held on August 17th, details below. All who knew Christina are welcome to attend and share in honoring and celebrating her life.