NameLorna Marguerite INCLEDON
FatherPhilip James INCLEDON (1856-1934)
MotherMary Jane BONNER (1861-1957)
Misc. Notes
Lorna attended Arrarat Catholic School and remained a firm Catholic. She had moved to Melbourne by 1934.

She had a fiancée who was killed in World War I; she never married. Her sister Vera said that Lorna had a wealthy boyfriend. •1 While working on the telephone exchange, she was the person who took the message that her fiancée had been killed. She continued working on the telephone exchange throughout her adult life. •2

Lorna used to organise group bookings for plays and musicals to raise funds for the Childrens' Hospital in Melbourne. In recognition of her voluntary work she was made a Life Governor of the hospital and, on her retirement in 1953, she was awarded the Queen's Coronation Medal. •2

Lorna used to go skiing. She was interested in family history. •2

Lorna and her widowed sister Vera lived at 24 Tennyson Ave, Caulfield, looking after their mother until her death in 1957. Then, at the age of 70, Lorna went on her only overseas trip. She was overseas when Aileen died in 1958. •2

Lorna spent two and a half years in Canada, working as a companion to a priest's elderly mother. She attended the Encharestro Congress in Munich, had an audience with Pope John and saw the Passeon Oppenamagan and many shrines. She also visited Liverpool, Cambridge and Scotland. •2

Lorna inherited the house in Tennyson Av. Later she sold it and bought a house in Riverdale Rd. She left the use of that house to her sister Vera, the property to be sold after Vera's death and the proceeeds shared between the family. •1

--Invalid Dates
Birth: 11 Feb 1888 Or 1893
Research
•1 Vera McNabb
•2 Margaret Craig
Birth in VPI #09023 - same person?
She signed her name Lorna Marguerite Incledon on her brother Ron's marriage certificate.
Spouses
Unmarried
Last Modified 17 Sep 1996Created 23 Mar 2008 using Reunion for Macintosh