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7 LANSDOWNE NEWS, SUMMER 2019

Happy Birthday

We wish the following residents
a very Happy Birthday:

December

10 December William F.

19 December Anne McG.

20 December Elsa

22 December Ron H.
Meet Lorna Howe
23 December Pat D.
25 December Mary S.
Lorna Howe was born in Sydney in 1920 and grew up in Parramatta
28 December Mary D. and Strathfield and went to the Methodist Ladies College (MLC)
Burwood. Lorna had a very happy childhood and made wonderful

friendships at MLC who remained as very close friends all their lives.
January After leaving school Lorna did a secretarial course in Sydney and
commenced work at the Western Electric Company in Sydney which
6 January Maria S.
was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company
7 January Betty E. where her sister was the Managing Director’s Assistant. It was no time
after starting there that she met John Howe there and they married in
20 January John C. March 1942 after the commencement of the war when John was on
leave from camp in Singleton.
21 January Nola H.
During the war Lorna lived in Strathfield with her parents whilst John

was in the army posted to New Guinea. After the war in November
February 1949 their son John was born and in January 1954 their daughter Judy
was born. At this time Lorna and John and the children moved to Lane
7 February Bill W. Cove and subsequently to Northwood. Lorna and John became
involved in their children's activities and made local friends as well as
8 February Michael G.
keeping in touch with their old school friends leading very social lives
16 February Beryl W. with square dancing, tennis parties, playing bridge and card nights and
assisting with the local scouting group. Lorna was always interested in
20 February Warren N. charity work and assisted with fund raising for the Golden Years
Committee which was the fundraising arm for the Old People Welfare
Association where she subsequently worked for a number of years and
set up and ran the “Old Peoples Week” each year at the Sydney Town

Hall. This also led her to run Senior Citizens Centres in the South
Sydney region for a number of years.

John and Lorna were very close to their son and daughter’s families

and their four grandchildren and loved spending time with them on
weekends and during their school holidays. They travelled extensively
in later years and particularly enjoyed holidays in England and Europe.
In 1996 Lorna and John moved to a unit in Wollstonecraft and two

years later John died suddenly leaving Lorna alone at the age of 76.
She missed John tremendously but continued to travel and played
bridge 2‐4 times a week, attended Probus and had social outings with
her MLC friends.
Lorna was living independently in Wollstonecraft until the age of 98
when she moved into Lansdowne Gardens in September 2018. Lorna is
loved very much by her family and has nine great grandchildren whom
she adores seeing.