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- «i»Flora«/i» went to the Teachers' Training College [Seminary] at Wellington..."Fum" taught at several mission schools and then returned to Malan Mission, to look after her ageing parents and to do the house-keeping.
«b»Fum at Malan
«/b»Fum had grown up in closer contact with Granny than the others and she played a great part in my life. She did all the housework, gardening and looked after the bees and fruit chores 'because Mother is growing old'. Fum made the bread and let me help with the kneading. She robbed the hives, climbed trees, pruned roses and fruit-trees, drove carts, rode horses, bake cakes and biscuits, sewed, crocheted fine lace, made milk-jug covers, did beautiful embroidery, knitted and gardened. She played the piano and violin and sang and read to me and allowed me to play with Arnold's precious toys which were kept in a big box in a cupboard in the dining room. She gathered the eggs and fruit, and shot snakes in the trees with one shot in the head. FUM DID THINGS!
When Lizzie was expecting one of her twelve children, Fum usually went alone in her cart via Idutywa, Umtata, Mount Ayliff, over the mountains through Emfundisweni to Bizana 'at the other end of the world' to help.
She went to school and teachers training college in Wellington in the Cape and taught at mission schools at Blythwood and Mgwali near Stutterheim, and in Basutoland, then returned to Malan Mission to care for her parents until they retired in 1927 when she moved with them to Ngqeleni to keep house for Frank. She never married and devoted her life to caring for her parents and then making home for Frank's children when they lost their mother. When Frank remarried she lived with and helped Mary and Lance Crowther, in Ngqeleni.
In 1963 she joined Norah and Sid Stone at their home in Kokstad and moved with them to Port Shepstone in 1968 where she lived until 1974, and eventually died in the Village of Happiness on the Natal South Coast in 1975.
Source: «u»Notes on the Lundie & Auld Families
«/u»compiled in 1989 by Jack Wakefield from Mary Crowther's records on the family in Scotland and information from Norah Stone, Frances Smith, Carol Pemberton, Anne Wakefield and David Lundie.
28 June 1928 Flora {Flo} received a post carrd from her "Auntie Agnes" [Agnes Purves] from Llandudno, addressed to Flo at Hermoor Cottage, Belmont Road, Sharples, in Bolton, Lancashire.
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1884 - 1975 (90 years)
