Note: Ivy was born in the family home ' Warrawee', a 50 square solid brick home, the tenth child of thirteen. Her training as a nurse was terminated when she came down with rhumatic fever,and she returned to Balnarring to her parents' home. Five days after her 23rd birthday, Ivy married Tom Strickland at Warrawee, and moved to Narracan to start their new life together on the farm. Life on the farm had few creature comforts - Grandma did the washing by boiling up the clothes in a kero tin of water on the wood stove. Meat, butter and milk were kept in the coolgardie safe(some years later replaced by a kero fridge). Grandma's first child, my Mum, was born some weeks earlier than expected. Grandpa was sent over to a neighboring farm, the Ryans, to get help. He returned with Kate, who delivered the tiny baby, and asked that the child be named Kitty, after her. Soon after the birth, Grandpa bundled up mother and child, put them into the cart and took them the 5 mile journey to the little hospital at Trafalgar. What an introduction to motherhood! Ivy continued to live on the farm at Narracan until Tom's accidental death in 1971, after which she moved to another home in Contingent St. Trafalgar. She sold the farm to her second son, Ted. Grandma currently resides in the Senior Citizens' Hostel in Ollerton Ave, Newborough.
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