June Lynette CALDICOTT [83]

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1927 SA Birth CALDICOTT June Lynette Leonard John CALDICOTT Kathleen Alice HUGHES Adelaide 190A/365
Occupation: Retired Kitchen Supervisor

Observer (Adelaide) Saturday 9 April 1927
CALDICOTT (nee Kathleen Hughes). -On the 3rd April, at Memorial Hospital, North Adelaide, to Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Caldicott, Lenswood -a daughter (June).

The Advertiser (Adelaide) Thursday 11 August 2016
Death Notice:
ARNEY, June Lynette (nee Caldicott) Passed away peacefully on August 8, 2016. Aged 89 years. Loved and loving wife of Ralph (deceased). Loving mother and mother-in-law of Anne and Raymond (deceased), John and Virginia and Mary and Damir (deceased). Cherished Nan of Simon, Darmir and Nola, Christopher and Helen, Emma (deceased), Kerry and Jason, Amy and Aaron, Sarah and Russell, Michael and Mellissa and Damien and Stephanie. Great-Nan of Chloe, Hayley, Alana, Connor, Lachlan, Isabelle, Zachary, Emma, Bess, Emily, Lucy, Kai, Chloe and Ethan. Rest in Peace. Always in our hearts.

The Advertiser (Adelaide) Saturday 13 August 2016
Funeral Notice:
ARNEY, (nee Caldicott) June Lynette. THE FAMILY and FRIENDS of the late Mrs JUNE ARNEY are invited to attend her Funeral Service to be held in the Acacia Chapel, Enfield Memorial Park, Gordon Avenue, Clearview on WEDNESDAY, August 17, 2016 commencing at 10.30 a.m. Morphett Vale 82979555.

Written by June ARNEY nee Caldicott (Courtesy of Judith Miller nee Caldicott)
My Father, Leonard John Caldicott, was born (12 August 1892), and bred at Lenswood. "When he grew up he worked as an orchardist with his Father and three brothers. On the 11th June, 1924, he married Kathleen Alice Hughes, (born 16 August 1900), from North Adelaide where her Father had run mixed business in Childers Street. She was a trained Infant Teacher.

On the 3rd April, 1927, I was born at the Memorial Hospital at North Adelaide and named June Lynette. I had a very happy childhood with loving parents, a Grandmother living with us, and Mother's sister living not far away.

For many years Mother and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Os. Caldicott, were very good tennis players and played for Lenswood in the Hills Association and also in any championships around. My cousin Fay and I were usually taken with them. Mother said I was so shy I sat on the seat and hardly moved, so I was as clean going home as when I started. Auntie Glen wouldn't own Fay as she used to be in everything including sifting dirt through her frock. Sometimes Auntie Glen would drive us to tennis with the horse, Tommy, and sulky. This was fun as Fay and I would kneel on the floor of the sulky behind the horse as Auntie Glen had him flying along. We usually went to Lobethal to Dr. Jungfer's or down the Swamp Road to Mr. Allan Vickers' as they both had their own courts.

School was a great time for me for at last, I had plenty of playmates. I had a mile to walk to school and usually met up with other children on the way. The year I started, 1933, was the year the Lenswood Cold Stores were opened. I used to pass that corner on the way to school and can remember when there was only my Great-grandparents' house on the corner and the small cowshed down by the creek. Now there's a huge Cold Store there.

There were still a great deal of uncleared scrub around in those days and being an only child and plenty of time on my hands, I used to love to wander over the hills picking wild flowers, or else down in the creek trying to catch tadpoles and frogs.

When I was in Grade IV, 1936, we had to go to the Institute to school as the two old primary rooms at Forest School were being demolished and two new classrooms, a woodwork room and lunch room were being built. What a thrill to have a new school.

1936 was a sad year for us too, as my Grandmother Hughes died after a long illness and Mother's brother, Will, from Melbourne, died too.

In 1940 I started at Adelaide High School. When Mother took me to be enrolled she introduced me to all the teachers she'd had when she was at the school and I got to know them all well.

Twice during my high school years Mother was very ill. In 1942 I boarded with Mrs. Bright and her daughter, Esther, who had been a teacher at Lenswood and boarded with us. The second time, the following year, I boarded with Auntie Maude at Basket Range for the four months Mother was in hospital. I had a happy time there as I was treated like one of the family and it was as if I had a brother and three sisters. I used to go home at weekends and do the housework while Dad went down to see Mother in hospital. Dad would come home late Sunday night and I would be off to school Monday morning, so I didn't see much of my parents at this time.

After I left high school I went to Burrough's College and did all their machines and when I graduated I got a position on the Calculators at W.D. & H.W. Wills. I thoroughly enjoyed my work there as we had such a variety of things to do.

I 'd been working there about two years when I got engaged to Ralph Lawrence Arney. Ralph was the eldest son of Norman Arney, who was the second son of William Henry Arney. Will Arney had married Mother's half-sister, Louise, his second wife.

Ralph and I had known each other as children but met again at this Grandfather's when we were both boarding with them. Ralph had bought property at Klemzig when he got out of the Air Force after the war and was boarding with his Grandfather while he was building a shack on it. He had spent his childhood at Wanbi in the Murray Mallee where his Father had had a farm.

In March 1947 I had to leave work to look after Mother who was once more very ill. I spent twelve months at home then on the 13th March, 1948, Ralph and I were married and lived in the shack at Klemzig. We had been married just one year when our daughter, Margaret Anne, was born on the 28th March 1949. At this time Ralph was working with Woodroffe as a plumber. We made additions to the shack and it was very comfortable. When Anne was 12 months old we sold this property and bought a block closer to the main road and a built garage on it where we lived intending to build a house.

My parents were on the move too. They were staying with Aunt Lou while building a house at Broadview, so we saw a great deal of them.

On 21st December 1950 our son, John Lawrence, was born. That was the day the foundations for our house went down. Ralph had organized a group to help him lay it so he was working all day and didn't get in to see him new son. Mother and Dad were thrilled to be grandparents again.

By the end of March my parent's house was almost completed. The carpets had been laid and all the new furniture Mother had chosen was due to arrive the first week in April and their new car was due shortly after. Unfortunately Mother never lived in her new house as she had a bad heart attack and died on the 1st April 1951 at Aunt Lou's. Dad moved into the house but spent a lot of time at Aunt Lou's and at the Broadview Bowling Club. Luckily he'd been a member of the Club since coming to Adelaide and it helped a great deal.

We stayed at Klemzig until August 1951 when Ralph got a job at Clinton Centre with Tom Correll on his farm. Tom had five farms and we lived in the homestead of one of them. We'd both been brought up in the country and loved the life and had two very happy years there, and on the 27th March, 1953, our youngest daughter, Mary Lynette, was born at the Ardrossan Hospital.

Ralph's parents had left Wanbi in the Mallee by this time and had a farm at Angle Vale. Ralph's younger brother, Glen, had been home helping his Dad but he was marrying and going to Peake to live. With his wife's Grandparents he was going to run the Peake Post Office. Dad asked Ralph to take his place and share farm the property but after nine weeks trial we returned to Clinton Centre for another twelve months.

Ralph then had an offer to work from his old firm of Woodroffe's so we came back to Adelaide to live. We purchased a new house at Clearview and had to stay a couple of weeks at Angle Vale as the house was not quite ready. While we were waiting at Dad's there was quite a large earthquake (the first I'd ever experienced) and we wondered if we'd have a house to move into. However, we were lucky and our house was intact and we moved in on the 4th March, 1954.

We'd only just got settled when Woodroffe's put Ralph in charge of their operations in Port Pirie. They were doing the plumbing on the Uranium Works, the new Men's Wing of the Hospital and had to put in one hundred septic tanks for the Housing Trust as the City was doing away with the "night carts." For the first eight months Ralph lived in Woodroffe's house with the other workmen who were on the job with him, and came home once a fortnight. In "February 1955 we all moved up with him and any workmen who came after that lived in a caravan on the property.

On 14th May 1955 my Father married Phyllis Ramsay. He met her at the Bowling Club and she used to partner him in mixed foursomes with Mr. & Mrs. McGregor. I was very pleased at the time as I worried about him living on his own and we were so far away.

We had three years at Pirie and while there saw quite a bit of the surrounding country, made a lot of friends and found a few relatives as well.

Grandfather Caldicott's brother Jack, had built and lived in the house back to back with us but had moved out the year before to live with his daughter. One of his grandsons, Brian Scarman, married and came to live opposite. Jack Caldicott, one of Uncle Jack's sons, was a plumber and Ralph got to know him.

I used to go to the Y.W.C.A. crafts night each Tuesday and I met Mrs. Gwen Raw. Her husband Cyril was manager for Coco Cola Bottlers in Pirie. Gwen was a grand-daughter of Robert Caldicott, another of my Grandfather's brothers.

When the work was finished in Pirie, Ralph was offered a job as Health Inspector with Graham Rehn and Associates. Being a qualified plumber helped, as they did building and weed inspection as well, but he had to do the Royal Society of Health exam which was a London exam. It was usually a two year course but Ralph did it in one and got highest marks ever in South Australia for that exam.

It was hard work studying as well as working but very interesting as he travelled all over S.A. Graham Rehn and Associates were free lance inspectors doing the work for country councils who didn't have enough work for a full time inspector.

After working for two years with Graham an opportunity to teach plumber's came up and so Ralph joined the Education Department. This meant more study but Ralph was a born teacher and enjoyed young people. Unfortunately their school workshop house three noisy trades, plumbers, panel beaters and sheet metal workers and finally he had to stop teaching as the noise was affecting his hearing. He returned to Health Inspecting again with Graham.

He only stayed with them for twelve months as a change to get back into teaching came. They had changed premises in his absence and had a better workshop. He was only back a couple of months when he was sent to Mt. Gambier. Mt. Gambier was being sewered which meant all the plumbers had to do the course and be registered to be able to do sewerage work.

We thoroughly enjoyed our four years there. We had been told Mt. Gambier had its levels of society and that was so but we were fortunate to bridge them all. From Mt. Gambier we had many caravanning holidays and explored a lot of Western Victoria and Southern Australia.

The children were all doing well at school and Anne had gained scholarships in her last years at High School and decided to take up a teaching career. In 1967 she came to Adelaide to board and did first year University arts course. The second year she dropped university and did the Teachers College internal course. She had a happy time at College excelling in Maths and Physics and played hockey where she was secretary of the Club. In 1971 Anne gaine her Dip. T. and was sent to Snowtown Area School to teach.

By this time we were back in Clearview; we returned in 1968. About this time the house and block at Broadview were getting too big for my Father to manage and he and Phyl bought a unit at Klemzi, part of the Aged Cottage Homes. It was a lovely unit, on the end of a block so they were able to have a carport right next to it. There was a small plot where they could have a garden but all the lawns etc. were maintained for all the units. Dad bought himself a new car so they were all set up.

In 1970 our son John also decided to make teaching his career but instead of High School arts he went for High School Physical Education as he loved his sport. He'd done well at hockey in Mt. Gambier where he'd played for Mt. Gambier in the Country Carnival which they won and he was named best player for the match. He continued playing hockey when we returned to Clearview, first for Enfield then for Adelaide Teachers College. In 1970 he went with the College team to Perth - the first 1st year student to go interstate with a College team. The same year he was chosen for the State squad to go to Queensland but finances and studies prevent this.

In 1972 John got his Dip T. (Phys. Ed.) and was sent to Port Pirie High School where he continued his studies for another two years and gained his Advanced Diploma. In October that year he became engaged to Virginia Margaret Wright, another Phys. Ed. graduate who was teaching at Risdon Park, Port Pirie.

In the meantime our youngest daughter, Mary, left High School and went to Business College and graduated on the Comptometer. She got a position with Eudunda Farmers which she held for about six months, then was called in the Commonwealth Bank where she stayed until she was married.

Mary Lynette was the first of our family to be married. She married Damir Varovcic on the 10th July, 1971. They had a flat at Frewville and Damir had a job as storeman with Myers. Their first son, Simon Leigh, was born on 6th September, 1972. He was a happy little soul and thoroughly spoiled being the first gtandchild. Their second son, Damir Cichael, was born 27 December, 1972. The flat was too small with two children, so they moved to a larger house at Thebarton. As money was short Mary went to work and the boys were at a nursery during the day. In February 1973 both Mary and Damir gave up their jobs and packed as many of their possessions that they could in their car, stored the rest with a friend and with all the money they had in the world, $150 they headed for Port Lincoln looking for work.

Damir was fortunate to get a job as packer with the railways at Minnipa. There was a house that went with the job for $5 per week, so until they could get to Adelaide to collect some furniture they camped in the house as best they could. After 2 years at Minnipa, Damir got promotion to Burra, a pretty little spot in the mid-north.

They spent two years at Burra, then had two years in Tarcoola in the hope they could save a bit of money from the higher wages. We paid them a visit while they were there. The trip up on the Indian Pacific was an experience and we arrived about 4.30am nearly an hour late. By the time we'd had coffee and something to eat we were still talking when Damir said he had to "run the Line" at 6am so Ralph went with him. He was very interested in the trip as the new Tarcoola to Alice Springs line was still being built and a lot of machinery and materials were stored at Tarcoola.

We were taken out to a gold mine which is still being worked onm the site of the original Tarcoola township. It was believed in the early days that Tarcoola was going to be another Kalgoorlie but it was not to be. The Hotel, the Church and Queen's Hall had been moved three times from the original town as the town followed the gold.

In July 1980 the family moved to Gladstone where Damir was a ganger. They were gradually getting closer to Adelaide but promotion was getting harder to get. In June 1982 they were transferred to Lameroo where Damir is Ganger-length runner. This will probably be the last move for a while as the boys are now both at High School and promotion is getting harder in the Railways. They are fortunate Lameroo is a pretty town and has a good Area School and it is near enough to get to Adelaide in a day if need be. After living in the country for so long they don't want to come back to the city to live.

John Lawrence was the next one married. He and Virginia Margaret Wright were married on the 5th May, 1973 in Adelaide and lived at Port Pirie where they were both teaching. Christopher Leigh, their first child, was born at Pirie on 14th November, 1975. While still living at Pirie their second child, Kerry Louise, was born at Port Broughton on 26th May, 1978.

In January 1979 John was transferred to Wirreanda High School at Morphett Vale. For the first six months they lived at Aldinga Beach in a shack owned by Virginia's father, Harold Wright. Then they bought a house in Alice Crescent, Morphett Vale, close to the school and moved in in July 1979. On the 30th September 1980, their second daughter, Sarah Jayne, was born at the Flinders Medical Centre. Virginia did not give up teaching all together but did any part time teaching she could fit in.

They all enjoyed their time at Morphett Vale and at Wirreanda High where John had a wonderful gymnasium and Phys. Ed. centre. It was the first one of its type built to show what could be done and it had everything. We were very surprised when we went to help Mary and family moved to Lameroo that the school there were putting the finishing touches to a gymnasium of the same type as at Wirreanda.

In January 1984 John was promoted to Senior Master and transferred to Whyalla Eyre High School. They are living at Whyalla Jenkins and all being well their fourth child will arrive on 10th November, 1985.

Margaret ANNE who had gone to Snowtown to teach met Raymond John Woodhouse the postman, and they were married on the 4th May, 1974, at Archer Street, North Adelaide. They lived in Snowtown where Anne continued teaching for a couple of years.

In December 1977 Ray was in hospital seriously ill with a virus. He had had Hodgkinsons Disease some years previously and always had problems with viruses and getting his temperature down. While he was in hospital Anne was also admitted. She had only three weeks to go before her first baby was due but unfortunately she lost it.

In January 1979 Ray was transferred to the Blackwood Post Office and so they bought a house at Reynella. Anne was pregnant again and fortunately was going to the Flinders Medical Centre as once again she was having trouble and had to spend the last five weeks in hospital. The on 23rd May 1979 Amy Nicole was born.

In 1981 Ray went into the Australia Post School for six months to gain further qualifications. When that was over he had to go on the relieving staff as his job at Blackwood had been filled. Ann was pregnant once again and on the 9th December, 1981, Michael John Raymond, was born, this time luckily she had no problems.

Early in 1982 Ray applied for and got the position of Postal Clerk at Leigh Creek South. They moved up there in June 1982. They enjoyed their time there as they were involved with sport and the Church so had a very full life. In late 1984 the Leigh Creek Post Office was upgraded and the position of Postal Clerk was abolished so Ray was transferred to Keith in the South East in January 1985, where they bought a house. They are enjoying life there very much.

While the family had been getting married and moving etc. we remained at Clearview. Ralph was teaching at the Plumbing Trade School until he retired in January 1981. I had had a part time job as "tea lady" at the Highways Department from 1968-1973 then after a break of 18 months I worked at the Royal Overseas League for five years from 1975-1980 as Kitchen Supervisor. This was a very interesting position as I met a lot of people in all walks of life and levels of society.

In July 1979 my stepmother Phyllis, was taken to Modbury Hospital with a bad gall attack and while she was there my Father got pneumonia and was admitted as well. As Phyl was unable to look after Dad when she left hospital Dad was sent to the Milpara Infirmary for a couple of weeks then given a unit in the home hoping that Phyl would join him as soon as she was well enough. Unfortunately she preferred to stay on in the unit at Klemzig so they were parted for the last couple of months of Dad's life. He had a slight stroke on the 20th September and was transferred to Kalyra at Belair. He passed away on the 28th September, 1979.

Phyl remained at Klemzig until the middle of 1982 when she was transferred to the North East Community Hospital. She was there until her death on the 10th January, 1985, aged 90 years.

Ralph's parents retired to Salisbury about 1957 and then got a unit at Aldersgate Village about 1977. They are both alive, Dad aged 88 years and Mother, 85 years. Dad is still in the original unit but Mother's memory is playing tricks and so she has a room where she can get the attention she needs.

We are still living at Clearview. Ralph chose early retirement, he was only 56 years old, as the attitudes of the younger teachers towards teaching etc. worried him as he was a teacher of the old school and believed in discipline and pride in workmanship. As he'd been very ill with a brain tumour in March 1976 it seemed advisable to retire as soon as possible. Now we are both members of the Riverside Golf Club and spend a great deal of time there and have our home and garden to keep us busy. Our children keep popping in to see us and we are thoroughly enjoying retirement.

June married Ralph Lawrence ARNEY [84] [MRIN: 26], son of Norman Lawrence ARNEY [1760] and Lyla Madge FATCHEN [1768], on 13 Mar 1948 in Archer Street Methodist Church, North Adelaide. (Ralph Lawrence ARNEY [84] was born on 18 Jul 1924 in Hutchinson Hospital, Gawler, South Australia, died on 12 May 2009 in Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia and was buried on 18 May 2009 in Enfield Memorial Park, Clearview, Adelaide, South Australia.)