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Pauline was born on the 21st of November 1951 in Wangaratta Victoria
I first spotted Pauline when she was in year seven at Geelong High School.
A few years later, while we were on a hayride to Drysdale in 1966, I tried to hold her hand on our way back home.
She was very resistant but I was very persistent, and I got my friend Jack Green, to drive me to her house the next week.
Fortuitously, I was wearing my best clothing and I stood in a deep muddy hole that went half way up my trousers.
I knocked on the door, Pauline’s mother answered, she saw my predicament and instantly felt badly for me.
Pauline did not want to come outside, but her mother did not give her a choice and dragged her out to talk to me.
The following week she agreed to go with me to the Star Drive-In with Jack driving again. We courted for the next five years.
After we matriculated in 1969 from high school, Pauline went to Geelong Teacher’s college with a scholarship and completed her qualification in 1972.
We were married at Wesley church in December of that year.
In our self converted Hi-Ace Van, we went on our honeymoon around Australia traveling over 20,000kms in five weeks.
We drove on mostly dirt roads, many days between 40 and 50 degree celsius without air conditioning or radio.
Over the next 40 years, we travelled extensively throughout Australia at least once a year and travelled to well over 50 countries all over the world.
For the next four years Pauline worked as a Teacher before falling pregnant in 1976.
The following year, she gave birth to our first son Carrick, then in May of ’81, to our second son Connacht.
At this time, after 18 months from Child Birth, the Department of Education forced women to either resign or resume full time teaching.
Pauline decided to stay home with her kids and once they were old enough, she returned to teaching full time.
She had to wait four more years but finally got a permanent teaching position at Manifold Heights Primary, where she worked for the next twenty years.
This is when Pauline gained her reputation as a superb teacher and parents would fight for their kids to be in her class.
She retired at 64.
Pauline had such as full and exciting life….
A life cut so undeserving short, on the 14th of October 2023, following a severe stroke and concomitant heart attack, Pauline Died in Horsham aged 71.
A Lady so very Special… So, So Special
21.11.1951 - 14.10.2023
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