The Veness Family History

We now live in Western Australia after having spent 6 years on a citrus orchard at Mt White in New South Wales. Margaret’s husband and Frank were in partnership on the orchard, and although it was hard work, we really enjoyed that part of our lives. After selling the farm we all bought caravans and headed west. Frank and I were only going for a holiday, but stayed. It was thought that WA would give our grandchildren a better start in life, and this proved to be true. It is now 1997, and we have been here for 22 years and have enjoyed it all. For the last six of these years we have been living in Mandurah, just south of Perth. Our son, Kevin, and his family left the west to settle in the Kingaroy district of Queensland, but come home periodically to visit, and we make trips every few years to the Eastern States and Queensland. With his son, Christopher, now married and working in Bourke, in the west of New South Wales, and daughter, Michelle, presently living at Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, the family is spread far and wide. (Pearl died at home in Thornlie, WA, on 10th February 1999. She was buried 15 February 1999 at Pinnaroo Memorial Cemetery, Padbury, Western Australia.) NOTE: Pearl wrote this back in 1997. Naturally, time has moved on. and now, in 2020, Pearl, Frank and their son, Kevin, are all gone. Our travels took us to many beautiful and, sometimes, quite exotic places. As can be seen by the hats, we are in Mexico where Frank tries his hand at riding the “bull”. 37 | P a g e