OTTO, Annie Ethel

Name – OTTO, Annie Ethel
Born – 10/02/1893
Died – 13/08/1954
Location – No 84 Anglican Section
Mother – Annie Ethel Podd
Father – Frederick Alexander Short

Notes – Annie Ethel Short was born to Annie Ethel (nee Podd) and Frederick Short at Thullagoona Station. Her siblings were Purvey born 1895, Thomas Abrham 1895, Jack 1895, Alice 1901, Fred 1887, Jane 1887, William 1889, Joseph 1896 and John 1900.

Her father Frederick died at Box Gully, Quinalow when she was 11 years old. Read newspaper article here. She would have had a hard beginning to life.

Annie married Norman Otto in Dalby on the 19th of January, 1915 and they had seven children, William, Norman, Joan, Frederick, Ethel, Florence and Margaret. Annie lived in Tara for thirty odd years and raised her children here.

OTTO, Annie Ethel shares a grave with her husband Norman and her headstone reads – In loving Memory of Annie Ethel Otto Died 13th August, 1954. Aged 61.

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