Millar Buzzard

Epilogue

Some of Millar’s siblings enjoyed long and fruitful lives. However, Alys, the youngest sibling, was the first to die on 13th April 1937, in England, at the age of 44. Her final place of rest is beside her husband (who passed away on 8th September 1929) in Greenwich Cemetery, Shooters Hill, London.

The eldest sibling, Vera, died in Ararat, Victoria on 5th May 1971 at the age of 83. She was cremated and interned in the same niche of the Garden of Remembrance of the Fawkner Memorial Park, Victoria as Major William Slade Vincent and Emily Alice Buzzard who were also cremated. The Major died on 2nd September 1946, and was followed by Millar’s mother, Emily Alice, on 21st July 1950. Vera’s husband, John Russell Cuthill, died in Edinburgh, Scotland on 27th December 1930 and his gravesite is unknown.

The last of his siblings, Marjorie, died on 3rd February 1978 was cremated and ashes buried on the family plot at Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide. A headstone inscription was also placed at the North Road Cemetery, Adelaide, on the grave of her husband Malcolm Douglas Tweedie who died on 25th December 1935.

Of his half-siblings, William Slade Vincent Junior, was the first to die in Perth W.A. in 1934 and was buried with Millar in Moora. Barbara Vincent, who married Humphry John Millett on 21st October 1921, in Bombay, India was to pass away on 12th February 1985, in Chagford, Newton Abbot, Devonshire, England. Her place of rest is beside her husband in the grounds of St. Michael the Archangelo Church, Chagford, Devon.

And finally, Joan Vincent passed away 9th February 1991 at Taunton Deane, Somerset, England and was cremated there and her ashes buried in the local cemetery. Her husband, Richard Edward Vining, died on 26th June 1952 and is buried in the Yeovil Cemetery, Somerset.

Many of Millar’s attributes have been passed down to the generations the followed him. Two of his sons had an association with the “land” and all three were quick to enlist in the armed forces when World War 2 started. His only daughter was a farmer’s wife and succeeding generations worked or owned farms in Western Australia.

They did what Millar and Margaret Mary also tried to do - raise and provide for their family, under the sometimes harshest of conditions often faced by those that choose a rural association.