Olive Emily Laws Part 1

Jean Lowrie, her daughter, has very kindly let me publish Olive Wood's Profile and given me access to  photos to illustrate it.

Percy & Emily Laws

Mrs Wood was born in Brisbane on the 19th July 1909, the fourth child of Emily & Percy Laws. 

 Her first most vivid memory of early childhood was when she was 4 1/2 years old. They were living at Dyeton Road Dutton Park, when her 11 months old brother Stanley died. The vivid scene she has always remembered was her standing at the bedroom window watching the horse drawn hearse move away from their home to the cemetery. 




Her father was a sign writer (1)and he and Mrs Laws raised a son, Percy, and three daughters, Dorothy, Eileen and Olive (Mrs. Wood). Soon after Stanley's death they shifted to Gladstone Rd. and she went to Dutton Park school for a short time then she and her sister Eileen were sent to the Normal School in Adelaide St. City where Anzac square is now. ( Note -See  http://www.yourbrisbanepastandpresent.com/2010/01/corner-adelaide-edward-sts-2.html  for more information about the school.)
 The memory she recalls most of this period is during the War when a soldier had died it was a regular thing to hear the band coming in the distance playing ' "The Dead March of Saul" The Class stood with their heads bowed until the procession passed by. They had another change of house to Hill End and as her sister was not happy at school they were transferred to St. John's Cathedral school in Ann St. 

(1) See pevious post  http://familytreeblossoms.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/longest-laws-family-run-business-in.html