SEARLE Ethel Florence Mary

Ethel Florence Mary Searle née Richards.

Ethel was a sister to Bob “Snobby Richards” and affectionately known as ‘Mum Searle’.
Ethel was born on 17 September c1891. She arrived at ‘Christmas Farm’ with her parents Charles and Roseanna Richards in 1901.
On 11 July 1907 at the age of 16 she married Henry Searle at Gnowangerup.
Their children: Edward, Amelia, Roderick, Arthur, Elizabeth (m. Lyle Clevedon Wellstead), Thelma Francis and Nancy.
Later in life Ethel lived in the Gnowangerup town site near the "Common" and took in boarders. She kept cows and supplied milk to local residents
She was a Life Member of the Gnowangerup Football Club, and washed the football jumpers for more than 20 years.
Ethel died in 1968 aged 77 years and is buried at the Gnowangerup Cemetery.

ETHEL FLORENCE MARY SEARLE                #1
 

       ETHEL SEARLE'S HOUSE            #2

Tammy Backshell:  My grandmother was Ethel Searle’s daughter. Her name was Amelia( Milly) Searle who married a Sturges. Once won first place for sewing her hankies in the Gnowangerup show. Information came from a Trove newspaper article. Must find it and post it. There were lots of lots of families names in the article. She also taught me to sew on a treadle”.
Rose English: Lovely lady always made me welcome when I went to her house to see her granddaughter Thelma, we were at school together.
John Altham: Great. ‘ milk lady ‘ supplied us for years
Rod Walker: great memories of Mrs Searle, milk, cards, football, boarders Edward Kuriata, John Crawford, National bank staff, post office staff (know their names, memory escapes me just now) an era that will never occur again. Still think about those days when we were all young.

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