Name: WHITTON Linda May

Date of Birth: June 19, 1910

Birth Location: Albany, Western Australia

Maiden Name: NEWBEY

Also Known As: Linda May JELLEFF

Age: 82 years

Date of Death: October 30, 1992 (Reg No 6000145)

Death Location: Cunningham Nursing Home, Busselton.

Date of Burial: November 5, 1992

Denomination: Jehovah’s Witness

Row/Grave: Row 2 / Grave 6

Grave Transcription:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

LINDA MAY WHITTON

(Formerly JELLEFF, nee NEWBEY)

19th JUNE 1910 – 30th OCTOBER 1992

MOTHER OF

RICHARD, IVAN, LINDSAY,

MERLE, FREDERICK & TARMA

Father: Thomas Joseph “Joe” Newbey born: 1879 Rochester, Campaspe Shire, Victoria.  Died: 21 August 1942. Buried Collie Cemetery.

Married: 1905 Broomehill, Western Australia.

Mother: Alice Steer born: 14 December 1881 Bordertown, SA. Died: 27 January 1947. Buried Collie Cemetery.

Grandfather (Father): Samuel William Newbey born: 24 November 1844 Hadley, Middlesex, England. Died: 19 April 1921 Sunshine, Victoria.

Married: 11 April 1871 Echuca, Victoria.

Grandmother (Father): Leticia Drewett born: 19 September 1856 Melbourne, Victoria. Died: 1 October 1888 Horsham, Victoria.

Grandfather (Mother): Edward William Steer born: 25 February 1853 Langhorne Creek, SA. Died: 26 May 1937 Collie.

Married: 4 December 1877 Mundalla, Wirrega, SA.

Grandmother (Mother): Sarah Hinge born: 19 June 1857 Wirrega, Tatiara, SA. Died: 28 November 1950 Collie.

 Siblings:

Edward William Newbey born: 27 December 1905, Albany, WA. Died: 7 December 1942, POW Italy. Buried 8 December 1942, Premariacco Cemetery. Later reinterred at the British and Commonwealth War Cemetery, Udine, Italy. Plot No IV. D. 7. Memorial ID 21623034. Married: 1932 Mary Alice Newbey.

Brenda Alice Newbey born: 1908 Albany. Married: Bunbury 1930 Francis James Noonan

Thomas Joseph Newbey born: 18 October 1914 Broomehill WA. Died: 10 April 1993 Collie. Married: Perth 1944 Mildred May Dyson.

James Herbert Newbey born: 14 June 1916 Katanning. Died: 28 November 2003, Rockingham. Married: Claremont 1943 Mary Lauris Pearson.

Norman Lindsay Newbey born: 7 April 1921 Albany. Died: 30 July 1944. KIA WW2 England in an aircraft training accident.

Spouse: 1. Richard Frederick Jelleff born: 26 September 1904 Sale, Victoria. Died: 12 August 1978 Cremated Fremantle. Married: 15 April 1929, Collie. Divorced 1944.

Spouse: 2. Frederick Ernest Whitton born: 21 November 1921. Died: 1 March 2009.   Married: 1945 Bunbury.

Children:

Richard William Jelleff born: 31 May 1930 Died: 23 August 2025. Buried Bunbury Cemetery. Married: 1952 Gwyneth Rosamund Edwards.

Ivan James Jelleff born: 21 February 1933 Died: 2 October 2014. Cremated Fremantle. Married: 1. 1954 Maxine Jean Snell.  2. 1957 Helen Faye Tuke.

Lindsay Roy Jelleff born: 8 May 1938 Died: 16 January 2002 Busselton. Married: 1960 Subiaco Karen Nancy Williams.

Merle Levain Jelleff born: 16 May 1940 Married: 1960 David Albert Lee.

Frederick Desmond Whitton born: 16 March 1945 Collie. Died: 8 March 2017 Busselton. Buried Capel Cemetery.

Tarma Whitton

Occupation: Home Duties

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