Name:  VIOLET SCOTT

Date of Birth: 21 April 1909

Birth Location: Gravesend, Kent, United Kingdom

Maiden Name: VICKERY

Also Known As: VI

Date of Death: 23 February 2001

Age: 91

Death Location: Bunbury, Western Australia

Date of Burial: 27 February 2001

Denomination: Anglican C

Row/Grave: Row 3. Grave #19

Grave Transcription: 

                                                          SCOTT

                                         IN LOVING MEMORY OF

ERLE E.A.                                                                       VIOLET                                                         

PASSED AWAY                                                         PASSED AWAY

2nd JULY 1992                                                         23rd FEB. 2001 

 AGED 83 YEARS                                                     AGED 91 YEARS                                                                    

                                         DEARLY LOVED PARENTS

                                       OF LIONEL, ERLENE & MARY

                                       TOGETHER IN OUR HEARTS

Father:  Frederick William Vickery.  Born 24 February 1878 at Tring Road, Wendover Kent, England.  Died 18 May 1971 at Bunbury, Western Australia.

Mother: Mary Elizabeth (Hollingworth) Vickery.  Born 15 November 1879 at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Died 25 August 1976 at Bunbury, Western Australia

Grandparents (father):

Charles George Vickery. Born 12 October 1834 at Overton, Hampshire, England. Died 10 May 1907 at Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom and Martha Jane Little. Born 5 August 1836 at Chiswick, London, England. Died January 1922 at Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom.

Grandparents (mother):

William James Hollingworth. Born c1854 at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Died c1920 at Oldham, Lancashire, England and Martha Bramwell. Born c1854 at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Died c1932 at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England.

Siblings:

Frederick William Vickery Jnr. Born 23 November 1901. Died 23 November 1986.

Albert Vickery. Born 2 February 1905.  Died 21 May 1999.

Roy Vickery. Born 19 September 1911.  Died 1978.

Lily (Turner) Vickery. Born 4 April 1914. Died 2012.

Victor Vickery.  Born 31 July 1916. Died 1997.

Spouse: Erle Eugene Augustus Scott.  Born 15 June 1909 at Bunbury, Western Australia. Died 2 July 1992 at Bunbury, Western Australia.  Married 1930.

Children:

Lionel Erle Scott.  Born 5 August 1932.  Died 20 July 2003.  Married Joan Agnes (Cain) 21 March 1953.  Born 11 February 1933.

Erlene (Roberts) Scott.  Born 4 March 1935.  Died 28 May 1999.  Married Keith Alex Roberts 1953.  Born 31 March 1926.  Died 3 February 2001.

Mary Grace (Davis) Scott.  Born 2 June 1937.  Married Lancelot Norman George Davis 1957. Born 25 August 1935.

Occupation: Home Duties

Their Story 

Violet’s family immigrated from England, where they originally settled in Maylands.

She was the third child, and first daughter born to the family.

The family moved down south in Western Australia and settled on a family farm at Elgin, Western Australia.

The local Telephone exchange was run from their house, with Violet being the telephonist.

She met a dashing young local farmer, Erle Scott, married in 1930 and settled on the farm ‘Maryville’ in Elgin to milk cows.

Violet raised three children on the farm.

Along with Erle they became founding members of the Elgin Community Hall, with the wife of each committee member being automatically elected as an auxiliary member to run the social functions. They dedicated 60 years’ service to the prosperity of the hall. The regard they had for the Elgin hall shows in their book dedication in ‘OUR ELGIN HALL’.

GOD MADE US TO LOVE AND CHERISH

TO GIVE TO OUR HALL BEFORE WE PERISH

PERFORMED TO PERFECTION

Violet’s passions were playing bowls, cards and having an amazing garden.

Together with Erle they were members of the original bowls club on Capel Drive before moving to the now current facility at the Capel Country Club, Goodwood Road, Capel in 1976.  They were both Life members of the club.

After Erle passed away in 1992, Violet remained on the farm for another 4 years and then moved into a house in Capel, where she stayed for another 4 years.

Due to ill health in 2000, she moved into Wattle Hill Nursing Home, Bunbury, where she passed in February 2001.

Story written by Monica Potter and Joan Scott for the CDCP website.

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