Henry John Dysart Furze,
Jack's Life Story.
Son of Henry Alfred Furze
and Eva Francis Bingham (nee Muntz) Jack spent the first years moving with
his fathers business of running/buying country newspapers. He no
doubt moved with his parents when their next child
was born Loch, the next at Boort in 1899, and 1901 at Donald and by 1905
at Loch, in Gippsland where the family stayed until 1915. During
this time at Loch he learnt to be a compositor for his father's Loch
Express. He would then have moved to Mildura and helped his father set
up some more papers.
During the 1914 war he
enlisted in the 29th Battalion of the 8th Division and was wounded at Poziers,
France and returned home where he served at Horseferry Road [ what was
that ?] until peace time. His fiancee Miss Carrie Bateman, born Melbourne,
married him at Essendon in an Anglican church, Melbourne 1919.
1942 Army medical report for Home Guard Duties.. G S W =
gun shot wound left elbow 1916 - in WW1 - when in Egypt and France.Also
in the Army Record his wife lived at 70 Wyndham St, Shepparton. at
the time of his discharge report.
After the War he took
a soldier settlement block of land at Mildura growing grapes and
making sultanas.
In 1928 he went to
Maroopna near Shepparton.
In 1929 on the death
of his father he took over management of "The Advertiser", and the
"Yeoman" which had been converted to a company in which he had an
interest [ from obituary].
[From John Furze from the
Maroopna Historical Society] Records show Henry John Dysart Furze purchased
the Goulburn Valley "Yeoman" from Walter J Wilson 1931 then in 1934
sold it to the owner of the "Maroopna News".
In 1934 Jack joined
the staff of the of "The Shepparton News" with his brother Frank
joining him soon after.
He was a very keen
philatelist giving first-day-covers to all his nieces and nephews as well
as being published in stamp journals. Also he grew a lovley
garden which many admired.
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Jack was very
interested in sport and was president of the local football club, played
cricket for the Toolanba Club, where he was captain for some years
and also played in Country Week games.
At the time of his death
he had been working in a stressful position as a foreman and living
at 10 Sutherland Ave Shepparton.
His pall- bearers
were his nephews, Lyn and Keith, brother-in-law Hal Richmond, Tom
McPherson and Mal Metcalf and Harold Sharp. Also: were McMillan,
Clyne, Morrish, Norris, Wright and Lightfoot. He was survived
by his wife, and two sons, John Arthur (Mildura) and Milton
Mervyn (Shepparton), brother Frank and his two sisters, Jane Harriet
Wilkinson (Mildura) and Eva Margaret Richmond (Hawthorn).
My
Uncle Jack as I remember him.
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