OBITUARY
WAIHEKE ISLAND’S
Queen Mudder
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Remembering the life and legacy of EBANZ Patron, Jenny Wallace and her 30 year dream. BY MARION BRIDGE Jenny Wallace was our EBANZ Patron from November 2003. She died peacefully in her sleep on January 13th at Edenvale Rest Home, age 90. Despite her determination to stay at “Chiara”, ill health determined otherwise. In her life story recorded by a local Hospice
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worker she says, “I was always a loner.” She was born in Australia on 5th March 1930. In 1953 she backpacked through Europe and on her return in 1954 she saw Australia in a different light. In 1961 she moved to New Zealand, travelling again and taking various jobs. It was in 1964 that she was introduced to Waiheke Island, she describes it as her “paradise isle”. Her interest in earth building was sparked earlier in 1961 by the remarkable Charlotte Larkin’s story of building her earth cottage “Puawananga – The Adobe Cottage’’ in Long
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