Have just found this site, while searching through the records of Aramoho cemetery, and signed up.
I am one of Victoria McKie's grandsons and, for a large part of my childhood years, was brought up by her, an excellent lady, after my parents divorced. She (and I, for 10 or so years) lived at 10 Quick Avenue, Aramoho, Whanganui.
She had two children by my grandfather Thomson, who died before I was born - my mother Betty and my uncle Tom. Tom was a civil engineer who lived most of his life in Canada, where he died a few years ago.
My mother Betty married my father Lou Whinray in 1947 and they lived in Hamilton.
When I was finishing secondary school I can remember her ringing up a friend of hers, whom she and my grandfather knew, and organizing a job for me at one of the local woolstores, where my grandfather had been the manager.
I graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from Auckland University in 1970 and I have spent my working life making baroque and renaissance recorders and transverse flutes.
Paul
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