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| 1905 - Baby Elsie Georgina Beckmann - beautiful innocence and, perhaps, a tad apprehensive before the camera. |
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| 1927 - The demur and beautiful Bride to be. |
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| 1928 The recently married Mrs and Mrs Jack Dixon |
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| Around 1944 - hard times - (Taken with a Kodak Box Brownie Camera) |
Forty years was a good long lifetime for the average ancient Roman.
To-day , 30th August,2011 marks the 40th Anniversary of the death of ELSIE GEORGINA DIXON (nee BECKMANN). It had been a hard knock life for the eldest child of the large Beckmann family. The little child Elsie's parents faced severe financial hardship as the young German immigrant husband and father struggled to find work in an Australia which found it difficult to climb out of the 1890's depression. When Influenza struck every member of the family , it was the child Elsie who nursed them all, parents and children back to health as her Father fondly recalled in his Memoir.
Only a little more than a year after her marriage to John Joseph ( "Jack") Dixon, the Great Depression destroyed the economic life of much of Australian society. Jack could not find work , but Elsie was able to do so in Vicars Woollen Mills at North Parramatta . World War II saved the Australian economy , as well as its freedom. It also gave Jack Dixon a job in the building of the vital Garden Island Graving Dock.
The enjoyment of the post-war peace was blighted for Elsie by the stress of looking after her own and her husband's parents and mother respectively, and by her own succession of debilitating illnesses. Through it all she never failed to help others, to be loving and kind and a selfless peacemaker.
Her death from a serious heart attack was entirely unexpected. Her 66 years of life left her fondly enshrined in the hearts of all who knew her, and certainly of me her younger son.
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| Late 1960's - a totally informal early morning snap.My dear Mum and Dad |
Requiescant in Pace.
Can it REALLY be 40 years?
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