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Wednesday, July 29, 2020
$1.40 Your Local News
What did one nonagenarian say to the other nonagenarian? A.
Happy Birthday!
At Clifton we had two local residents celebrate their 90th birthdays on Sunday and yes - they do chat on this day every year to wish each other a very Happy Birthday. He returned to the local ERIC HOLMES
Our newest nonagenarians - Betty Murphy (above) and Eric Holmes (right) were treated to special cakes for their 90th birthday celebrations on Sunday.
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Betty was born in Toowoomba and grew up at West Haldon where the family lived on a mixed farm where they raised animals such as pigs, cattle and horses. She went to the West Haldon State School where one teacher at most times had 18 to 20 students. Finishing school, Betty went nursing in Toowoomba but her father had to transport her in and out every day and it became a bit much so she went back onto the family farm. While she was living at home she worked at Clifton Hospital for while before she married her first husband, Jack Moar, and they lived at Pilton after they married. Betty later moved to Brisbane and married a fireman and worked at several places including the Mt Olivet Private Hospital and at another time delivered Meals on Wheels in the Valley for eight years. After her husband died of cancer, Betty returned to Clifton to be with her daughters - also, she had wanted to return to the country. “Once a bushie, always a bushie,” she said. Betty is still very active, living in her own home with her daughter Desley and volunteering at the local hospital. She used to volunteer at
Nirvana three days a week but now does a couple of days in the Nursing Home where she helps out with things such as morning tea, washing up afterwards and helping the residents under the guidance of the occupational therapist. “They’re doing us a favour as well as us doing them one because it keeps us active,” Betty said of her volunteer work. She celebrated her birthday with family and a few friends. RIGHT: Four generations gathered for the party Stephen, Janette, Drew and Gemma Frahm with Betty Murphy.
Eric Holmes has lived on the Darling Downs all his life. He was born in Allora and grew up on a dairy farm at Spring Creek, where he attended the Spring Creek State School. The school was located just below the current caravan park. “We used to tell people it was a high school, “ Eric said. “Because it was up on blocks - we used to eat lunch under the building.” Eric said he didn’t actually attend a high school but he was educated at Spring Creek until he left at 14 years of age. At that stage he went to help out his grandfather on his dairy farm, then he worked around the local area doing odd jobs for the neighbours. At 18 Eric worked at Dalby and Brookstead harvesting wheat..
area and share-farmed on a place at Pilton for four years before he married Gladys (nee Baker), who was from West Haldon. Eric said he knew Betty Murphy (or Betty Cook as she was then) as far back as that. After marrying, Eric and Gladys bought a farm at Headington Hill where they lived until their son Lindsay married. They sold the farm to their son Lindsay and moved to Allora where they’ve lived for 28 years or so. Eric has been in the Clifton Nursing Home recuperating from illness, but this week he moves back to Allora to reside at Homestead. On Sunday Gladys and his son picked him up from Clifton and took him home to Allora where members of the family gathered to celebrate Eric’s 90th birthday.
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