Former Inverell resident Ivy Ferris will be celebrating her 100th birthday at Kangara Waters in Canberra on Saturday with surrounded by relations, including Krause family members from Inverell, Queensland and South Australia.
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Ivy (Krause) grew up on her parents’ property, “Morningside”, near Jinderra with her brothers Bill, Roy and Charles.
Ivy’s two older brothers, Bill and Roy, moved to properties at Auburn Vale and Gum Flat, Inverell. In 1946 Ivy, her parents and younger brother, Charles, moved to Mulligan Street in Inverell.
She married Reg Ferris in 1948, and they lived on the property “Western View”, at Rob Roy. They had two children, Bill and Margaret.
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In 1984 they sold the property and moved to Urabatta Street in Inverell. After Reg died in 1992, Ivy continued to live there until 2011 when she decided to move to Canberra to be near her children.
Reg and Ivy were both very involved in the local community, including the Rob Roy School P and C, the Rob Roy Hall Committee and the Rob Roy Cricket Club. Ivy played tennis with the Rob Roy Tennis Club.
Ivy did volunteer work at the canteen at Inverell High School.
Later she volunteered at the kitchen for Meals on Wheels. When she was in her nineties she would still ride her “gopher” to the kitchen to help make meals for the old people.
