Note: Tom was a great sportsman. He played football and cricket as a young man, and played football for the Essendon Football Club in Melbourne. After moving to Gippsland he played football for the Trafalgar Meadows team. He was a member of the Trafalgar Golf Club, played tennis in the local Narracan games, was a champion table tennis player in the days of the sandpaper bats, loved a game of billiards or pool and infact had a quarter size table in the large lounge on the farm at Narracan. Tom took his bride Ivy to their farm in Narracan at the end of 1929. He and neighbors helped each other to clear the land on their farms. Tom grew potatoes, milked cows, separated the cream to take to the butter factory at Trafalgar, and raised pigs and calves on the excess milk. A carpenter friend, Craig Thomas, built a two roomed dwelling on the 60 acre farm, which was extended some years later as the family grew. As children, we loved to spend weekends at the farm milking the cows, driving the tractor, cutting maize for the cows, digging or picking up spuds- anything that involved working along side of this great man, who was our Grandad. He taught us the value of work, with him work was fun. He taught us honesty, good sportsmanship, to be helpful and considerate of others. It's over 21 years now since he died as a result of a tractor rollover while working on the Durkin farm at Narracan, but I still cry as I write these few memories- such is the pain of the separation. I look forward to seeing him in the resurrection.
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