Arthur Henry Merritt

Ina Beatrice SCOTT

NAME:  INA BEATRICE SCOTT

Date of Birth:  4 February 1917

Birth Location: Northam Hospital, Western Australia

Maiden Name: Fisher

Date of Death: 17 July 2003

Age:  86 Years

Death Location: at her home in Elgin on the family farm

Date of Burial: 24 July 2003

Denomination: Anglican B

Row/Grave: Row 1. Grave #4.

Grave Transcription: (Interred in the same grave as husband)

(Side 1 on plaque)                                                                       (Side 2 on plaque)

IN LOVING MEMORY OF                                                          REUNITED

PERCIVAL CAMPBELL                                                                  WITH HIS

SCOTT                                                                                            LOVING WIFE

BELOVED HUSBAND OF                                                             AND OUR

INA                                                                                                LOVED & ADORED

 DEARLY LOVED FATHER OF                                                       MOTHER

RAY, HELEN, THELMA, STANLEY                                               INA BEATRICE

DIED RESULT OF ACCIDENT                                                       PASSED AWAY

 6th AUG 1962                                                                              17 JULY 2003

AGED 44 YEAR.                                                                            AGED 86 YEARS

                                        REMEMBERED ALWAYS

Father: Stanley Fisher born: 22 January 1867, Wallaroo, South Australia. Died: 20 May 1956. Buried Capel Cemetery.

Mother: Eliza Anne Walker born: 26 December 1874 Yorkshire, England. Died: 24 February 1947. Buried Capel Cemetery.

Grandfather (Father): Richard Jolly Fisher born: 14 March 1819 Yorkshire, England. Died: 30 December 1873. Buried Wallaroo Cemetery South Australia.

Grandmother (Father): Margaret Murphy born: 27 June 1829 Killarney, Ireland. Died: 12 June 1875. Buried Wallaroo Cemetery South Australia.

Grandfather (Mother): John Blew Walker born: 15 February 1847 Middlesbrough, England. Died: 22 March 1928. Buried Northam.

Grandmother (Mother): Jane Stephenson born: 10 August 1845 Yorkshire, England. Died: 13 August 1928. Buried Northam.

Siblings:

Matthias Jolly Fisher born: 3 November 1892 Northam. Died: 22 December 1970. Buried Capel. Married: 1936 Vera Maud Harris.

Stanley Fisher born: 19 August 1894 Northam. Died: 30 October 1967. Karrakatta, Perth. Married: 1916 Gladys Lydia Braybrook.

Eliza Fisher born: 24 May 1896 Northam. Died: 1 August 1978 Cremated Karrakatta, Perth. Married: 1927 Albert Cant.

John Fisher born: 1898 Northam. Died: 1960 Buried Lake Grace.

Ernest Arthur Fisher born: 11 October 1900 Northam. Died: 12 July 1969 Buried Albany. Married: 1933 Constance May Kennedy.

Vivian Gordon Fisher born: 11 April 1902 Northam. Died: 5 May 1967 Lake Grace. Married: 1931 Martha Reimers.

Margaret Alma Fisher born: 21 February 1905 Northam. Died: 19 April 1980 Buried Bunbury. Married: William John Growden.

Clarence Lindsay Fisher born: 12 February 1907 Northam. Died: 20 December 1982 Buried Northam. Married: 1932 Winifred Alice Taylor.

Dorothy Hilda Vera Fisher born: 27 August 1908 Northam. Died 30 October 1993 Buried Moora. Married: 1936 James Gladstone Wilson White.

Roy Fisher born/died: 1910 Northam.

Richard Fisher born 26 November 1912, Northam. Died 24 November 1976, Bunbury, Buried Capel Cemetery. Married Lorna St Clair Scott

Allan Raymond Frederick Fisher born: 11 July 1914 Northam. Died: 20 November 1967 Williams.

Enid Mary Fisher born: 23 May 1919 Northam. Died: 18 May 2014 Buried Capel. Married: 1938 Verner Alan “Son” Scott.

Spouse: Percy Campbell Scott.  Born 6 August 1918.  Died 6 August 1962.  Married 1941

Children:

Raymond Percival Scott.  Born 1943.  Married Noeline May Platts 1965

Helen Margaret (Shine) Scott.  Born 1944.  Married Dennis John Shine 1965

Thelma Anne (Richards) Scott.  Born 1947.  Married Graeme William Richards 1968.

Stanley Eugene Scott.  Born 1952.  Married Deborah Ann Clarke 1973.

Occupation:   Home duties

Their Story 

A warm gentle lady of grace and dignity.  

Widowed at 45 years of age.

Continued to live on the farm she loved.

Possessed a quiet strength and deep humility.  

Highly intelligent.

Severe scoliosis meant she suffered quietly with intense back pain for most of her life.

Deeply loved and highly respected by all who knew her.

 

Story written By Thelma Richards for the CDCP website.

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