Thelma Jean Aston ⁷

  General Notes:

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Thelma served as a volunteer (unpaid) nurse for three years during WW2 1943-45.
She controlled the first air-raid shelter in Melbourne - it was in the basement of the State Electricity Commission (SEC) building where she was the sectetary to the Manager of the SEC.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Registered Birth, 17 Dec 1915, Elsternwick, Vic., Australia. ⁹

• Electoral Roll, 1937, Sunshine, Vic. Australia. ¹⁰

• Electoral Roll, 1942, Sunshine, Vic. Australia. ¹¹

• Electoral Roll, 1949, Cheltenham, Vic., Australia. ¹²

• Electoral Roll, 1954, Moorabbin, Vic., Australia. ¹³

• Death, 28 Jul 1997, Mildura, Vic. Australia.

• Registered Burial, Aug 1997, Lilydale Memorial Gardens, Lilydale, Vic., Australia. ⁷

Thelma married Russell Ray Watkins, son of William Henery Watkins and Dora Ann Russell Manning, on 15 Nov 1947 in Wesley Church, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Vic., Australia. (Russell Ray Watkins was born on 31 Jan 1916 in Kew, Vic., Australia, died on 11 Dec 2012 in Maroondah Hospital, East Ringwood, Victoria, Australia and was buried on 15 Dec 2012 in Lilydale Memorial Gardens, Lilydale, Vic., Australia.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Engagement Announcement, 8 Mar 1947, Melbourne, Vic., Australia. ⁸

  Marriage Notes:

Ray and Thelma met in 1946 at a dance at the Railway Hall in the Railway Building at Flinders Street station , Melbourne. At the time Thelma was secretary to the Manager of the State Electricity Commission. Ray remembered that dance night because the organiser of the dance announced that a 'baby' would be presented there for adoption. At 10pm the made the presentation - a little puppy.