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Mum and Dad were both great contributors to their local community. Dad’s mother worked for charity, and his brother Lindsay was actively involved with Legacy when he returned from WWII. Mum’s Aunts Linda and Anne were both Foundation members of the Australian Red Cross. When we lived on the farm we went to a very small, but very good primary school, with only two teachers. Dad was on the ‘Parents and Citizens Association’ at Bogan Gate Primary School and both Mum and Dad served on the P & C at Forbes High School. I remember them helping organise the annual fund-raising school fetes. We moved from the farm to Forbes when I was 9 years old. Dad joined the Forbes Golf Club and later was elected onto the Forbes Golf Club committee. |
Dad and Mum had sold the farm because they had 4 daughters, and in those times, Dad didn’t see the farm being viable in the long term - he used to joke that he would pay us to elope (rather than having to pay for expensive weddings). Dad sold International Harvestor farm machinery. He was very good at it! A lot of his business was enacted after hours in the pubs and clubs where the farmers went for a drink. Dad was partial to a drink as well! Mum was a member of the CWA (Country Women’s Association) in Bogan Gate, and then the Red Cross in Forbes, and later in Terrigal. When we went to Forbes High School, Mum helped serve on the school canteen. Mum usually cut us fresh sandwiches, but on Mondays she would give us 23 cents which, at Forbes High School in the early 1970s, would buy a salad roll and a small carton of chocolate milk. |
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