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| Myrtle Doris Weeks abt 1935 |
Myrtle Doris Weeks was born on the 17th October 1917 at the Brisbane General Hospital to Violet (nee Rollason) and Rupert George Weeks. She was the second daughter, the first being Gladys Evelyn Weeks born 1913.
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| Rupert & Violet Weeks, Toowong Cemetery |
Sadly 29 July 1921, her father Rupert died of tuberculosis, the scourge of society until the advent of the vaccine and treatments.
Myrtle and Gladys attended Kelvin Grove school the second generation of their family to do so.
Myrtle enjoyed writing, winning an encouragement award in the Brisbane Courier Children’s day essay competition in 1927 and another in the RSPCA Essay wards in 1930.
The three Weeks women were not well off but were better off than many as Rupert had taken advantage of a Government scheme to allow people on lower incomes to purchase homes.
Myrtle had met William George Busby in 1930 at the Church for Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints at Wooloongabba which she attended with her grandmother Lucy Rollason. Myrtle’s mother Violet did not want her younger daughter to marry as she felt it would be better if Myrtle would remain and look after her in her later life. Perhaps this fear of being alone was a result of being widowed so young.
It took a number of years, turning 21, pre-empting the wedding vows and having war declared but Myrtle did indeed manage to marry her Bill on the 11 September 1939. Bill went off to war.
Violet their only child was born in January 1940.
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| May 1946 Violet, Myrtle and Bill “Coming Home” |
