Mrs. Jean Katharine BULL (28 February 2003, aged 93
years).
Jean was the wife of bank manager Ken Bull - the couple arrived in Port Moresby
in 1958. Ken had spent time in Bougainville during the war and had a great
affinity with Papua New Guinea. For Jean the move was a great contrast to her
life as a bank officer's wife in Sydney but she made the change graciously and
became very adept at entertaining bank customers and friends and adapting to her
new life. For the first time since her marriage she took a job and became a
proof reader at the Government Gazette in Port Moresby under the guidance of Mr
H Nicholls - a very happy time. When both her daughters married and settled in
PNG she and Ken returned to open the bank in Lae where they spent some years and
Jean worked again, this time in the Post Office. After another stint in Port
Moresby, Ken's ill health necessitated them returning to Australia. Jean moved
to Cairns in 1988 to be near to family after Ken's death and then to Atherton in
2001.
Jean is survived by daughters Jennifer Collins and Christine King, six
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Jennifer Collins (Una Voce - June 2003)
