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Judith Lorraine Daft (Judy)
nee Bridger
Born December 6th 1948 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
( Picture taken 2002 on holidays at Charleville, Queensland )
My life has seen me living in different areas of the
world.
London, England: 5 - 7 yrs
Houston & Bellaire, Texas: 7 - 9 yrs
Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California: 10 - 12 yrs
English School in Bogotá, Colombia till graduation:
13 - 17 yrs
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I moved to
Montevideo, Uruguay
to study Geography and History of Argentina
to be accepted into the British Hospital
at Buenos Aires
at age 17.
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I then moved
to Buenos Aires
to the British Hospital at
age 18 for 3 yrs “live in”, doing
Study and Practice Nursing
at the School of Nursing, British
Hospital (Esquela de Enfermeria Hospital Britanico)
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After graduating in nursing,
I
worked another 6 months as a State Registered
Nurse (equivalent of “Sister”
in Australia)
at the British Hospital.
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At age 21,
I drove with my father, via the Pan
American Highway, through Peru,
Bolivia
and Ecuador to my parent’s
home in Bogotá, Colombia.
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I then worked
in a private clinic as a State
Registered Nurse in
Bogotá for 1 year.
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I then moved to
England, where I worked
at
Nottingham City Hospital
in the Children’s Plastic Surgery Burns Ward
for 1 year.
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In
1973, at age 25,
I married Peter Daft
in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Our first
child, Tanya, was born in
1974 in
Bogotá,
Colombia.
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We then moved
to Lima, Peru
where our second child, Marc, was born in
1977.
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In 1979
the family moved
to Northampton, England .
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As I hated
the cold weather in England, the family emigrated to
Adelaide, Australia
in 1983.
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While Peter worked in
Adelaide for 6
months, I travelled by bus to Brisbane
to investigate purchasing land in southern Queensland.
I was told of acreages in the Nanango/Kingaroy
area.
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After arriving in
Nanango at
midnight on the bus - to be met by a local real estate agent of the
time, who wasn’t there to meet me as arranged - I wandered through
Nanango with
my port, looking
for the town centre.
Eventually, still looking for the town centre, as I was walking along the highway out
of Nanango (as
I now
know it), he turned up.
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I was shown
various blocks. We decided to purchase 5 acres in the
Runneymede
area.
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Peter had to
follow work to Melbourne, Victoria
in 1983, so the family moved again.
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The family spent
1 year in Melbourne,
before we decided to move
to Runneymede to start a
new life and raise the children in a self sufficient manner.
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Many hard but enjoyable years were spent at
Runneymede.
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Peter had a heart attack and passed away in 1997.
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I
lived at Runneymede
until I had a heart attack in November 2006
and a triple bypass operation in
March 2007.
I was advised
to move closer to a hospital, so moved to Kingaroy.
I moved into my new house
in late August 2008.
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Peter
played the trombone in the Kingaroy Citizens Band
and studied and tutored Computing at the Kingaroy TAFE.
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I worked as a
Support Worker for Disabled
Children at The South
Burnett Respite Centre for 2 years
after Peter died.
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