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7 WILLIAM CAPE NEWS, AUTUMN 2019

Happy Birthday

We wish the following
residents a very Happy
Birthday

March
2 March Jessie G.

6 March Stan M.
8 March Kath F.

9 March Norah C.
William Cape Gardens' resident, Patricia Pederson
10 March Nina B.

18 March Audrey H.
Meet Patricia Pederson
21 March Robert M.

24 March Thomas J.
Patricia was born on 4 February 1935 in West London and was the
25 March Gay N. eldest of three girls. Ever since she was little, she prefers to be called
Trish.
April
1 April Margaret T. Trish has very fond memories of her schooling days where she attended

2 April Daphne J a Catholic school where girls were trained to be nuns. The school was a
Tudor house and she remembers on one side was the river Thames and
3 April Carol P. the other side was the sports oval. To get to the oval they had to go
under the house through a tunnel. It was lovely and she enjoyed her
7 April Ann S. & Kath S. schooling days.

9 April Catherine O. Trish left school at the age of 13 years and took up cake decorating. She
won prizes for her magnificent cakes. Trish’s father left England to come
11 April Lilian V.
to Australia to set up home here for his family. Trish, her mother and
Elizabeth S. & two sisters followed their father to Australia in 1957 by ship.
14 April
Joan M.
Trish applied for a job at David Jones in the city doing cake decorating
21 April John D.
which was advertised in a magazine. That is where she met her husband
25 April Shirley T. Carsten, which was love at first sight. They married and had three boys.
Trish and Carsten travelled and worked in many different states doing
28 April June & Cecil C. many jobs.

29 April Cecily G. Trish remembers one job she worked as a cook in the mines in Western
May Australia, while her husband worked in the pits at Paraburdoo in the
Pilbara.
15 May Patrick B.
When they retired Trish and her husband enjoyed doing pottery
19 May Ernest H. together. When her husband passed Trish involved herself with the
Salvation Church.
21 May Josephine S.
Janet C. & Lillian
28 May
A.

29 May Valerie F.
30 May Ibolya W.