Barbara Jean Petty, 19281989 (aged 60 years)

Name
Barbara Jean /Petty/
Birth
Marriage of parents
Event
Debutant Ball
1946
Occupation
Clerk
1948
Employer: General Electric
Address: Kent St Sydney between Market and King St.
Note: Barbara met Frank Woods at the General Electric Company. Frank was a trainee accountant almost qualified. Barbara later did data entry and processing.
Death of a maternal grandmother
Address: Grandma Ginnie died at 78 Belgrave St, Sylvania. We lived at the end of the street second last house. It was a riverfront fronting the Georges River where Sylvania Waters is now situated. The house is still there. Gordon 14/09/2015 The house has been demolished and a typical Sydney mansion built at 3 Holt Place 28/09/2020. Gordon
Cause: natural, old age
Note: I was 8 yrs old. Packed off to stay with Auntie Nell in Bellfields. This was a regular occurence when a family crisis occurred.
Burial of a maternal grandmother
Address: Sylvania, Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, Australia
Burial
Woronora Memorial Park
Sutherland, Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, Australia Show Map
Plot Crematorium Area AA, Rose Garden 8, #188
Memorial ID 172957536
Religion: Protestant. Methodist
Note: Grandma was cremated at Sutherland District Cemetery and her ashes were in a Rose Garden there. I regularly took my mother Hazel there to visit the memorial, place some flowers and polish the brass plague.
Residence
Address: Marrickville Rd, Dulwick Hill
Note: After they married, Barbara and Frank lived upstairs in a barber shop owned and ran by Uncle Sid. The location was about a 15 minute walk from my school at Summer Hill. I did stay there regularly with Barbara and Frank. On one memorial occasion cousin Robert Lemon from Harden came to visit and we stayed there together. Robert kept me up all night talking about the noises coming from Marrickville Rd as it was the terminus for the Marrickville tram line and the major stop for the Canterbury tram line.
Residence
Note: Frank complained about the ferry ride across the Yarra River to get to work at Altona.
Family Gathering
Hazel and Bert Trueloves Wedding Anniversity
1983
Death
Family with parents
father
Sidney Petty_1933-Enhanced-Colorized.jpg
19021998
Birth: 1902
Death: 21 November 1998South Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia
mother
Peggy Petty_nee Mclaren_1933-Enhanced-Colorized.jpg
19081995
Birth: 3 June 1908 50 39 Harden-Murrumburrah NSW
Death: 19 September 1995Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage Marriage1928Petersham, New South Wales, Australia
9 months
herself
Barbara Wood 1984.jpg
19281989
Birth: 29 September 1928 26 20 Belmore, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 26 August 1989Miranda, New South Wales, Australia
Family with Francis David Wood
husband
Frank Wood 1984.jpg
19242017
Birth: 1924Sydney
Death: 29 November 2017Caringbah, Sydney, NSW
herself
Barbara Wood 1984.jpg
19281989
Birth: 29 September 1928 26 20 Belmore, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 26 August 1989Miranda, New South Wales, Australia
daughter
Jillian Elizabeth Wood
son
Geoffrey Raymond Wood
son
Christopher Bruce Wood
Occupation

Barbara met Frank Woods at the General Electric Company. Frank was a trainee accountant almost qualified. Barbara later did data entry and processing.

Residence

After they married, Barbara and Frank lived upstairs in a barber shop owned and ran by Uncle Sid. The location was about a 15 minute walk from my school at Summer Hill. I did stay there regularly with Barbara and Frank. On one memorial occasion cousin Robert Lemon from Harden came to visit and we stayed there together. Robert kept me up all night talking about the noises coming from Marrickville Rd as it was the terminus for the Marrickville tram line and the major stop for the Canterbury tram line.

Residence

Frank complained about the ferry ride across the Yarra River to get to work at Altona.