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Kidman Way #7.
Doris Golder is a fine artist and dear friend.

This is a fairly long story but stick with it for she is a skilled artist who uses a rare form of art medium and she is such a delightful person. I think you will enjoy reading it. I will publish it over 2 or 3 days.

Doris now widowed and lives in a retirement home in Lockhart on the west side of Wagga Wagga which is known simply as Wagga. The name is aboriginal for crow, well that’s the most considered opinion. Wagga Wagga means many crows. But I have gotten away from the story I intend to tell.
Doris married Geoff Hopwood when he returned from the war. Geoff was a fighter pilot and survived only to be killed sawing wood with a swing saw. The wood pierced his forehead. They had only one child who was born after his Dad’s death and he too was named Geoff. (This Geoff also became a pilot was killed in New Guinea in an aeroplane crash).
Doris now a widow married George Golder who also was a farmer. They lived their life at Boree Creek only a few miles from where she and Geoff Hopwood had farmed. Both Doris and George were very cherished oldies in the community. They did considerable good work including accommodating a cropduster pilot when he worked in the area. in 2106 Doris was awarded the OAM or Order of Australia medal for services to the community. It was well deserved and appropriate.
Doris was an artist who had talent like few others possess.She crafted portraits and just a few scenes from the medium of wool. Very slow to construct, some taking her several months because she was a perfectionist.
I have many photos of Doris and George with this art work but they are at home in the form of hard prints and I am presently many miles from home. Maybe I will post them at a later date, but I can get some copies from the internet. They do not do Doris’s art justice because they are not sharp images. But you maybe able to appreciate her talent.
The next story will be more of Doris and I will pull part of this from an upmarket monthly magazine named “Outback”.