Fords of Katandra

Victoria Australia

  Walter Leslie FORD (Les)
1917-1956
Married to Vera Elizabeth CURRIE
6th child of Walter Leslie FORD & Alice Susan SIMKIN
Great grandchild of Thomas FORD & Eliza Ann BATE
 

Photo below

 Les
approx 1941-1942

 

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WALTER & VERA FORD
HAD 5 CHILDREN
Living Male 19xx
Ian Leslie 1946-1999
Living Male 19xx
Living Female 19xx
Living Female 19xx
NAME Walter Leslie FORD (Les)
FATHER Walter Leslie FORD
MOTHER Alice Susan FORD (nee SIMKIN)
BIRTH DATE 6 August 1917
BIRTH PLACE Ambermere Hospital,
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
SIBLINGS         Vera Laura  1907-1957
Thelma Blanche 1909-1999
Olive Lola  1911-2006
Alma Myra 1913-2000
Reta May 1915-2009 
Marjory Jean  1919-2002 
Alan Gordon  1920-1923 
Lillian Ada   1922-1986 
EDUCATION Youanmite, Victoria, Australia
OCCUPATION farmer and motor mechanic at Katamatite, Victoria.
MILITARY  WW2, AIF, Service No. V121157, Private, 59 Battalion.
24 July 1941 - 21 January 1942 
SPOUSE Vera Elizabeth CURRIE
MARRIAGE DATE 27 March 1943
MARRIAGE PLACE

Scotts,
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
DEATH DATE 6 October 1956
DEATH PLACE Yarrawonga Hospital, Victoria, Australia
BURIAL DATE 8 October 1956
BURIAL PLACE Katandra Cemetery,
Section, R2  G42,
Katandra, Victoria, Australia.
CAUSE OF DEATH  Heart failure, rheumatic fever
KNOWN RESIDENCES   Katamatite, Victoria yyyy-yyyy
00 Name Street Town State yyyy-yyyy
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Photo to the right
(Les) Walter Leslie Ford & Vera Elizabeth Currie

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Family Memories

Les was a farmer and motor mechanic doing mechanical repairs for farmers on their tractors and headers.  He had a swing saw which he used to fell trees, length them and then cut them up to sell as fence posts and fire wood.

At the age of 19 Les suffered from Rheumatic Fever which damaged the valve in his heart.

After he was married he worked for Arthur Peters in 1947, some years later he sold the garage at the request of his father who had failing health and need assistance to run the farm at "Orange Grove" Youanmite, after organising the sale of the garage and before Les took over the farm, his father died.  Walter's daughters insisted the farm be sold and Les bought the family home and 14 acres off his sisters where they ran a poultry farm.  He also worked for Mick Mead at the Katamatite Engineering Works.

At the age of 39 Les's health failed due to the leaking valves in his heart and he died on 6th October 1956 at the Yarrawonga Hospital.  He is buried at the Katandra Cemetery.

 
wlfjnr193416 Photo to left  Les 1934 aged 16
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