Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced
by Rob Greaves for Uniting Melba and podcast through the Toorak Times
and Tagg.
Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with interviewees reflecting upon their lives from earliest memories. An underlying principle of the program is to promote the concept of positive ageing, reinforcing the principle that older people have & continue to make a valuable contribution to both their local & wider community.
In this, the second part of the 3-part-story of Marie Earle, we follow Marie’s story as she becomes a young woman and we learn how she met her husband to be, Gerard Earle. Gerard was part of a searchlight squad that was stationed very close to her home on the outskirts of Melbourne during WWII.
While romance bloomed, she suddenly was parted from Gerard when he was sent to the Maruki Islands in what was then Dutch New Guinea to fight the Japanese. Then in 1948, after his return to Australia, they were married.
Gerard learned to become a butcher and eventually he and Marie took over the families butcher shop on her fathers retirement, where they worked together for 27 years.
Click to hear – Marie Earle Part 2
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