Roie Beatrice Bickerton

roie beatrice ussher......................lived at 2 melford street, ponsonby.where she bought up her son......stanley lionel bickerton, with the help of her mother, helena beatrice ussher.[ nee buck....]

worked partime at scots printing works....where she and others counted race books into bundles of tweny five lots.......................sometimes work ed for a full 24 hours . straight.........the company paid her taxi fares both ways. also was an invisable darner at ..new zealand drycleaners...........in newton/ponsonby. seperated when her son was 3 months old from her husband.walter bickerton.............. had minimal money..............but worked hard to buy things for her son............. loved going to the old britania picture theartr at the three lamps shopping centre................her and her mother had reserved seats for every showing of movies...........it was a given that they would be there............and they were. loved widow shopping in k-road and queen street...and the old farmers trading company in hobson steet. she was a great machinist.............could make anything....... never married again.........either did her husband .walter. died of cancer in auckland hospital.........................buried at purewa cemetery.close to her mother and her father.........percival stanley ussher................... .