Rachel Mattiske

Ruth

This is a story about a lady named Ruth, she had a typical childhood born into an Australian family during the latter part of the second world war and raised in rural South Australia. Although not much is said about her early years, we can assume that born at the end of the great depression and the second world war that life would have been happy but frugal. Life would have revolved around school and farm life during the week and church and family on Sundays. Ruth grew up and met Daniel through her local church group as communities were small and people didn’t travel far very often. Ruth and Daniel got married younger as was normal at that time and lived on the family farm in the Murray Mallee. The farm was large but not well established, much of the land they cleared themselves and the homestead was an old stone house with wide verandas and hanging gum trees but without air conditioning or modern conveniences.