Winifred Spry

Winifred Spry, nee Budge, was born at Farina where her father worked for, and later bought out, her maternal grandfather who owned the Manfield chain of general stores in the Far North. Winifred went to school locally until 1913 and then to Yoothamurra in Glenelg until she was sixteen. By this time the family had sold up and moved to Adelaide. She married in 1920 but her alcoholic husband deserted her in Sydney after two years. Winifred kept this from her family for a year, working first in a factory and then as a domestic, before returning to Adelaide and deciding to train at the Adelaide Children's Hospital. Her nursing career took her all over Australia. She divorced her husband in 1928