Ollie was born in 1898 in Warrnambool, Victoria.[1] She is the daughter of Robert Wood and Fanny Dorney.
Ollie was deaf from a young age.
She worked for more the Nestle Company for forty years, retiring in 1958. She worked in the very noisy canning section of the factory. Her nephew Ross visited as a school boy when she was working there.
She used to lip read. She lived in Southern Cross near Koroit with a Katie Molan. He nephew Ross Wood recalls "We saw Auntie Ollie weekly as she adored we twins being the youngest of her brother’s children. She would come in by bus every Saturday to visit us."
Ollie did not marry.
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