Norman Walter Fritz (1910 - 1999)

Born 2 Aug 1910 in Laidley, Queensland, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Daphne May (Lyne) Fritz — married 23 Mar 1938 in Laidley, Queensland, Australia

Descendants

Died 21 Jun 1999 at age 88 in Laidley, Queensland, Australia

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Biography

Norm Fritz was born in Queensland, Australia

Norm Fritz has Prussian Roots.

Norman Walter Fritz was born on 2 Aug 1910 in Laidley, Queensland, Australia. He was the son of Hermann Fritz and Othelia Nitz. ^[1]

Norman left Plainland school at 13 to work on the family farm. During one bad drought he cut prickly pear and burnt the prickles off to feed the cattle. He enjoyed cricket & tennis and was a keen horseman.

He married Daphne May Lyne 23 Mar 1938 in Laidley, Queensland, Australia. ^[2] They had a dairy farm in Plainland and supplied cream to the Laidley Factory. Norm also picked potatoes, cut onions helped with shoeing horses.

Norman died in Laidley Hospital of a Heart Attack on 21 Jun 1999 and was buried in the Laidley Cemetery Laidley, Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. ^{[3] [4]}

Norman Walter Fritz - A Man of the Land

Norman was born in Laidley in 1910 to Hermann & Othelia Fritz. He died in Laidley Hospital in his 89th year, the last of his generation, having survived 5 brother and 1 sister.

He attended school at Plainland. Many were the tales of what the Fritz boy’s got up to, catching wallabies on the way home from school. Not a day would go by without at least one of the Fritz boy’s getting the cane for one thing or another. Norman’s handwriting was a perfect example of what was taught in those years.

Leaving school at 13, he worked on the family farm. During one bad drought he cut prickly pear and burnt the prickles off to feed the cattle.

Before getting married, Norman played cricket and tennis. The only mode of transport in those early days was horses and bicycles. Norm was a keen horseman, breaking in horses. He still had a saddle horse on his farm a year before he passed away. When courting, Daphne told of doubling her on his bicycle from College View to Gatton.

Farming was Norman’s life. He and his eldest brother “Mick” (Victor) share farmed Gunn’s farm at Crowley Vale. At the age of 27 he married Daphne Lyne, having moved to Plainland, share farming at first then buying the farm outright. Dairying was the main, supplying the cream to the Laidley Factory and was one of the last farms to supply cream to Booval in the late 1970’s. Norm picked potatoes and cut onions during the winter months, always a helpful neighbour from shoeing horses, cutting broom millet, to helping with stock.

For many years, every 2nd Monday was pig and calf sale day in Laidley. They would unload for the sale and reload the calves and pigs into railway wagons to be railed to Cannon Hill in Brisbane. After the stock yards closed in Laidley, Norm helped his brother “Pat” (Percy) who had a livestock carrying business, having a holding shed on the farm. This ended when Pat was killed in a road accident in 1974.

Norm and Daphne shared a wonderful life on the family farm at Plainland, until Daphne passed away in 1997. They had seen good times and bad times with flood and drought. ^[5]

QLD BDM Records

Norman Walter Fritz Event date: 02/08/1910 Event type: Birth registration QLD Birth Registration details: 1910/C/5915 Mother: Ottilia Nitz Father/parent: Herman Wilhelm Fritz

Norman Walter Fritz Event date: 01/03/1938 Event type: Marriage registration QLD Marriage Registration details: 1938/C/608 Spouse: Daphne May Lyne

Burial

Norman Walter Fritz BIRTH : 3 Aug 1910, Queensland, Australia DEATH : 21 Jun 1999 (aged 88), Queensland, Australia BURIAL : Laidley Cemetery, Laidley, Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia MEMORIAL ID : 192483009 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192483009/norman-walter-fritz

Sources

1. ↑ Birth registration: Norman Walter Fritz Birth date: 02/08/1910 Mother's name: Ottilia Nitz Father/parent's name: Herman Wilhelm Fritz Queensland Birth Registration 1910/C/5915
2. ↑ Marriage registration: Norman Walter Fritz Marriage date: 01/03/1938 Spouse's name: Daphne May Lyne Queensland Marriage Registration 1938/C/608
3. ↑ The Schafferius Story p18, Kerry Atkins 2001
4. ↑ FindAGrave: Norman Walter Fritz - Born: 3 Aug 1910; Died: 21 Jun 1999; Cemetery: Laidley Cemetery Laidley, Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia; Find A Grave: Memorial #192483009 accessed: 09 May 2022
5. ↑ The Schafferius Story p154. Kerry Atkins 2001

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