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Listen To Older Voices : Marie Earle – Part 2

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Rob Greaves
Rob Greaves
I have been with the Toorak Times since April 2012. I worked as Senior Editor of the Toorak Times until 2023, when I retired. I now work as a special features contributor for both the Toorak Times and Tagg. I've been in the Australian music scene as a musician since 1964, and have worked in radio and TV and newspapers (when they were actually printed on paper) as well as working in the film industry, as the Film Unit manager on Homicide for several years. I also have extensive experience in audio production and editing.
listen to older voices : marie earle - part 2 Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced 
by Rob Greaves for Uniting Melba and podcast through the Toorak Times 
and Tagg.

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with interviewees reflecting upon their lives from earliest memories. An underlying principle of the program is to promote the concept of positive ageing, reinforcing the principle that older people have & continue to make a valuable contribution to both their local & wider community.

In this, the second part of the 3-part-story of Marie Earle, we follow Marie’s story as she becomes a young woman and we learn how she met her husband to be, Gerard Earle. Gerard was part of a searchlight squad that was stationed very close to her home on the outskirts of Melbourne during WWII.

listen to older voices : marie earle - part 2
Marie in the 1950’s

While romance bloomed, she suddenly was parted from Gerard when he was sent to the Maruki Islands in what was then Dutch New Guinea to fight the Japanese. Then in 1948, after his return to Australia, they were married.

listen to older voices : marie earle - part 2
Marie and Gerard

Gerard learned to become a butcher and eventually he and Marie took over the families butcher shop on her fathers retirement, where they worked together for 27 years.

 

Click to hear – Marie Earle Part 2 

 

Previous Listen To Older Voices Programs can be found in our archive, by clicking on this link – listen to older voices : marie earle - part 2

listen to older voices : marie earle - part 2
[Listen To Older Voices receives funding from the Commonwealth Government through the Commonwealth Home Support Program Program]
listen to older voices: rob greaves – part 2
Rob Greaves

I have been with the Toorak Times since April 2012. I worked as Senior Editor of the Toorak Times until 2023, when I retired. I now work as a special features contributor for both the Toorak Times and Tagg. I've been in the Australian music scene as a musician since 1964, and have worked in radio and TV and newspapers (when they were actually printed on paper) as well as working in the film industry, as the Film Unit manager on Homicide for several years. I also have extensive experience in audio production and editing.

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