Jenny Davy
Jenny, a country girl from Northam where her father was the dentist, spent most of her school years at Perth College before attending the University of WA where she graduated with an Arts degree. She taught at PLC in WA and the sister school in Bowral before moving to England where she married and began her family of three children. Upon arriving back in Perth she combined raising a family and teaching at TAFE where she became a leader in the field of Adult literacy programmes and the volunteer tutoring scheme.
While attending The University she was a resident at the Women‘s College where she first learnt to play bridge and spent many a long night pursuing this interest. She was quite exceptional in that she could play bridge all night, sleep till noon, miss lectures, put off study till the night before the exams and still manage to get distinctions. Bridge took on another dimension when she joined the bridge club. She was able to develop her game and her involvement in the club and the many friends she made there was a source of much pleasure.
Jenny will be remembered for her ready wit, her very irreverent sense of humour and a delightful capacity to see the funny side of most things. The day before she died she commented, with a wry smile on her face that she was taking an unconscionable time dying. She was referring to that famous quotation of Charles II who said : ”he had been an unconscionable time dying and hoped they would forgive him”.
She was very passionate and knowledgeable about music and attending the WASO and ACO concerts was a constant joy for her. Going to the movies with Jenny always took on another dimension. She would always research the story line, directors, actors etc and nothing gave her greater pleasure than discussing and rating the film over an easy meal and a good bottle of red wine. Similarly she had a great love of literature and was extremely well read and was keen to discuss TS Elliot‘s Quartet only a few days before she died. What a wonderful asset to her bookclub she was.
She had a dislike of all sports except the cerebral and the day had not begun until she had completed the cryptic crossword in the Australian. It was an addiction which she fed joyously come what may and it was too bad if someone else wished to do it. She suffered the football but if challenged would always barrack for the underdog so chose to be a Docker!!! She considered other sports tedious and wouldn‘t know what a golf course looked like!!!
Jenny‘s three children Gus, Benj, and Libby and her three grandchildren were able to celebrate her 73rd birthday with her just a week prior to her death.
Jean Williams
Published in June 2010 Edition of Trumps Plus
