Family

My husband's name is Jim and we were married in 1965 in our teens. We had three sons James Craig and Richard. Built our first home in the Blue Mountains. After a huge fire raged through our district at Valley Heights we started looking for somewhere else to bring up our family. We purchased a 5 acre block at Mulgoa near Penrith and built our home. We were there 7 years and then moved to Parkes in the west of NSW where our children finished their education at Red Bend Catholic College in Forbes. Jim was a systems operater with Prospect County Council before moving to Parkes and we arrived in Parkes with a truckload horses, then a return trip to fill the truck up with 1 dozen young gilts in pig - our big start to farming!! We had bought an old farmhouse on a few hundred acres of red dirt. We had a 23 years in Parkes where Jim ran his own contracting business alonside farming wheat, sheep, cattle and pigs. I ran the office of the local vet clinic for 18 of those years. Before that I managed the local HCF office for four years. We were busy little vegemites and had no family support system. We moved my mum and aunt up to Parkes in 1981 as they were on their own in Wentworthville. Unfortunately mum died in 1983 so we didn't have her for long. Auntie Al died in 1990 and we sent her out with a huge bang. On the day of her funeral James showed us his skills handling explosives and blew up an old shed for his father; certainly was a great show.

Our three sons are all married and we have 7 grandchildren to show for it. They are all in the science field and we are very proud of them. We now live in Valla and have a lovely seachange farm. This is just a short story of some of our life - there is so much more!!!!