Nancy Kathleen Forster née Geary (1920 - 1997)

 

Nancy Kathleen Geary, born in Perth on 5th March 1920, was the only adopted daughter of John Elton Geary and Charlotte Ethel Geary née Reed (Ethel).  Nancy married Cameron Hugh Forster in Perth on 3rd July, 1944 and they had two children, Cameron Elton Hugh Forster (Hugh) and Jane Ethel Forster.

 

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Nancy at 18 months. Nancy in 1925. Nancy with Ruff, 1931. Nancy with Ruff, Kalgoolie, 1931. Nancy with Ruff and Puss, Kalgoolie, 1931. Nancy & her mother, Ethel in 1932 at York.

 

Nancy and her lifelong friend, Judith Drake-Brockman, 1936. Nancy with the St. Kilda's Netball team in 1936. Nancy at the family home 'Hovea', Como, WA in December, 1934. Nancy at the Kalgoolie Magistrate's Residency.

 

Nancy in Kalgoolie, 1927. Nancy with Ruff aged eighteen.

 

Nancy's 21st birthday Portrait.

 

Nancy with her parents, Jack & Ethel Geary, at Menzies, WA 1922. Nancy & her mother, Ethel Geary, on the banks of Avon River, York, 1932.

 

Jack & Ethel Geary with Nancy aged three in Melbourne. Nancy with grandmother Reed at her house in Melbourne in 1925. Nancy with her mother, Ethel Geary, in the Kalgoolie bush. Nancy with her parents, Jack & Ethel Geary, Perth, 1930. Nancy with her parents, Jack & Ethel Geary.

 

Nancy is sitting second from right at Esperence, 1932. Rockingham - Helene & friend, Donald, Nancy, Grafton, Susie, Ethel & Jack. Rockingham - Nancy, Dudley, Donald, Pat and Gilbert Brinsden.

 

Christmas at Rockingham - Donald, Ethel, Jack, May Morrow, Pat, Grafton, Nancy and Susie, mid-1930s. Grafton, Ethel, Nancy, Winifred Rout, Donald, Susie, Pat, Arthur Rout and Jack. Pat & friend, Don and Nancy.

 

Nancy during her army days. Nancy and Cam with his father in 1944.

 

Nancy's Wedding Portrait, 1944. Their Wedding Portrait, 1944. Nancy and Cam in uniform on the streets of Perth, WW11. With first born, Hugh at Tarra Valley, 1947. With Nancy, Hugh and Jane at Lochiel, Woodside, 1957. Nancy at Gordon Street, Christmas, 1990.

 

Nancy, Tarra Valley, 1947. Nancy and Cam's children, Jane & Hugh, 1951. Nancy with her daughter, Jane, at the Bulga Park suspension bridge, Tarra Valley in 1954. Nancy with Cam and their children Hugh on Tammie and Jane on Bimbo at the Yarram Pony Club in 1957.

 

 

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