Note | EULOGY
ISABEL MAY WILLIAMS
16/10/1908 - 14/2/2000
May was born at Kyabram, to parents John Arthur Lynas (dec. 12th Aug 1953) and Edith May MadilI (dec. 18th July 1931). Her sister Hylda Mary born 1912 (dec. 16th Feb 1966, her brother George Arthur born 1919.
After living in Kyabram the family moved to Savernake where May went to school. In 1925 they purchased a farm at Jones Road, Drouin and later they moved to Melbourne.
On the 1st February 1930, May married Welsh migrant, David Wil1iam. They farmed at Drouin where life was hard. Bob Williams, David’s brother came and worked on the farm.
May worked hard, milking cows by hand, horse and jinker was their only means of transport. The milk was taken to the factory by horse and cart, the school kids hitched a ride on the cart to get to school.
May gave birth to three girls, Edith Doreen 1932, Shirley May 1935 and Gwenneth Joan 1937. In 1940 Joan passed away from pneumonia.
May and David separated in 1944, Bob decided to leave to take a job at the jam factory at South Yarra.
With the workload too much for May, she packed up and moved to Warragul. Where she got a live-in job as a cook at Rongoa Hospital, Doreen lived with her and Shirley lived with the Young family at Nilma.
May worked hard and finally built a house at 80 Bowen Street Warragul. Her life was full, working to make ends meet, she cooked, washed up for many functions, did shop cleaning, worked at the Sale Yards canteen and later worked at Fairview Homes.
After Doreen left school and went nursing at Sale, May opened her house to boarders. To this day there are still lasting friendships that were bonded with the many boarders she had.
At Bowen Street there were plenty of animals and chooks, Jenny was the house cow, then in the early 50’s Snow, there were lambs and even a pig.
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