Life Story of Joan Heather Easton

Once Joan and Ray returned from their honeymoon, they settled into their peaceful life as a married couple. This peace, of course, was interrupted by the arrival of their three children. Duncan Stuart was born in 1950, and was named after his grandfather, as the first-born son of both Joan and Ray. Two years later, Julianne came into the world, the only girl of the three children and whom her family affectionately call ‘Julie’. The youngest, Philip, was born in 1955 and was five years younger than his older brother. The happy Stuart family in the same cottage for fifteen years at 10 Banksia Broadway in the sleepy little beach town of Burleigh Heads. The street was so close to the kids’ school, (Burleigh Heads State School) that they did not even have to cross the road to walk there. As the children moved into the high school years, the family shifted once again to a lovely big home on Burleigh Headland, known as the best block in Burleigh. The house that they lived in is still standing, after 54 years.

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