Violet Arnold spent most of her life living at Spring Grove on the family property for which she was left a life interest, in her fathers will. She was celebrated as St Joseph’s oldest parishioner in 1970 at the occasion of the church’s 100 year anniversary. (1) She never married and out lived all her siblings. She died on 3rd November 1972 and is buried in St Joseph’s Wakefield Nelson
(1) Centenary of Wakefield Catholic Church
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Birth Record: 1884/19876, Death Record 1972/46885
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