Lynn (Glover) Carter

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19th January 1958 I was born at Te Aroha Maternity Home, the 5th child for Thomas and Lois GLOVER (nee AMON) of Main Road, Waitoa. Father was working in the seperating room at the Waitoa Dairy Factory. ^[1]

14 May 1961 Christening at St. Augustine's Church, Britannia Street, Petone. ^[2]

January 1963 started school at Waitoa primary school.

3rd Sept 1968 my father died in Waikato Hospital of heart attack when I was 10 years old. ^[3]

^[4] Our mother remarried to Philip Anzac Davidson ^[5]

1970 moved from Waitoa to Papamoa Beach Road and started at Mount Maunganui Intermediate School part way through the year in Form 1. ^[6]

February 1972 Started 3rd form at Te Puke High School ^[7]

1973 Moved from Papamoa Beach Road to 100 Te Hono Street, Maungatapu and started school at Tauranga Girls High on Cameron Road. ^[8]

Januarry 19th 1973 turned 15 year old

Dec 1973 left Tauranga Girls College ^[9]

January 1974 First job was at 'Hang 10' a sports wear and ....... factory, where I worked by way around all the different machines in the factory and became a floor supervisor.

January 1975 Moved to Mapua, in Goldern Bay, Nelson Region, to work on an apple and pear orchard owned by a family friend, until June, when I returned to my family home at Maungatapu. Worked in a clothing factory, making jeans on overlocker until, October, then moved back to Mapua to work on the same orchard to help prune and thin apples and pears until December. Returned back to Maungatapu. My mother Lois married for a 3rd time to a Fred Rathel, retired High School Teacher.

January 1976 Applied for Nurse Aid position in our churches newly build and opened private surgical/medical hospital in St Hellier's Bay, Glendowie, Auckland. Commenced working as a Nurse Aid.

June 1976 Gordon Carter came to nurse at the Auckland Adventist Hospital having worked in the Intensive Care unit at the Sydney Adventist Hospital. Prior to that he had trained and worked at the Royal Brisbane Hospital as the 2nd in Charge, of an orthopeadic ward. He was transfered to the Auckland Adventist Hospital from Sydney. In 1974, Gordon and his parents had taken a campervan holiday around the North and South Islands of NZ, and loved it so much, that Gordon thought he would return one day to see more. This is what made him seek a transfer from Sydney to Auckland.

Little did we know that we would work on the same ward together, and in Sept of 1976, Gordon asked me out on a date to a concert in the Auckland Town Hall.

January 18th 1977 Engaged to Gordon Arthur Carter

1976-77 Living at 39 Sierra Street, Glendowie, St Helliers Bay, Auckland, NZ with other hospital staff. The house was owned by the hospital. Name: Lynn Joy Glover Living at 39 Sierra Street, Glendowie, St Helliers Bay, Auckland, NZ Working at the SDA Private Hospital, started their Jan 1976 as a Nurse Aid. This was our church hospital and it was sold to another private hospital organisation in the early 2000's. ^[10]

March 1977, I left the SDA hospital ( which was later sold in the late 1990's to another private hospital organisation), to commence my formal 18 month Community Nurse training at Tauranga Hopsital in April 1977. There were 220 applicants for just 20 places!! I felt extremely lucky that I was accepted, given that School Certificate was the prefered requirement for entry into the programme, which I did not have, however my prior nurse aid training, gave me the added advanage of some prior experience in nursing.

8 Jan 1978 Married at the Seventh Day Adventist church, 15th Avenue, Tauranga. This church was later sold, becoming a bicycle shop and later again, a paint shop. A new church was build on Bethlehem Road, Bethlehem, Tauranga. ^[11]

1978 Electoral Year: District: Tauranga Region or Province: Bay of Plenty Address: 108 13th Avenue, Tauranga, NZ ^[12] Occupation: I was a student Nurse at Tauranga Hospital at this time.

November 1978 Finished my Community Nurse Training and moved up to Ellerslie, where Gordon was already living and was doing a post graduate certificate in Cardio/Thorasic and Vasular nursing course at Greenlane Hospital under Doctor Sir Barret Boyes, who did New Zealand's first heart transplant operation. I commenced work for the Auckland Nursing B.......(to be finished)

1978 Living at 3/39 Arthur Street, Ellerslie, Auckland. Occupation Nurse ^[13]

June 1979 Gordon graduated from his course at Greenlane Hospital and he applied for a position at the Brisbane Chest Hospital in Chermside, Brisbane. His application was accepted to work in the heart operating theatres.

29th June 1979 Flew to Brisbane to live. Moved into a flat in Clayfield until Christmas Eve 1979, when we moved into our brand new home we had built in a new subdivision at Bethania. approx half way from the Bisbane CBD and the Gold Coast.

5th March 1980, our first child was born, Andrew Thomas Carter at the Royal Woman's Hospital, Brisbane ^[14]

To be continued.

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Lynn Glover at registration.