Comments on: Lores Bonney: Australian Female Pilot http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:31:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Edward F Dickinson http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18386 Edward F Dickinson Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:21:37 +0000 #comment-18386 As a girl, my mother Ida Florence Meier lived in 52 Dover Street, Newmarket (Flemington) and Maudie Bonney lived in the same street. My mother was born on 6 December 1893, so she and Maudie were much the same age and they played together. Maudie Bonney took my mother to meet her father and he said to Maudie I'm told, "What is your friends name?" and Maudie said, "Her name is Ida." and Maudie's dad said "Then I shall call you Ida Spider." For all their lives and my mother died 13th February 1983, the ladies remained friends. As a boy I called Maudie "Auntie Maudie", and she always called my mother "Spider". I still have a copy of Terry Gwynn-Jones book "Pioneer Airwoman" which Auntie Maudie gave my mother on my mothers birthday in 1979. Maudie has written on the page with the Jonathathon Livingston Seagull Quote, the following inscription: 'To Dear "Spider" My first Australian friend. With Great affection. Maude (Lores) Bonney. 7 /12 / 1979" I have read many articles about her but there is never refernce to the time she lived in Flemington (Newmarket) in Victoria. She visited my family when ever she came to Melbourne and my mother and I visited her whenever we were in Queensland. I am now 71 years of age. As a girl, my mother Ida Florence Meier lived in 52 Dover Street, Newmarket (Flemington) and Maudie Bonney lived in the same street. My mother was born on 6 December 1893, so she and Maudie were much the same age and they played together. Maudie Bonney took my mother to meet her father and he said to Maudie I’m told, “What is your friends name?” and Maudie said, “Her name is Ida.” and Maudie’s dad said “Then I shall call you Ida Spider.” For all their lives and my mother died 13th February 1983, the ladies remained friends. As a boy I called Maudie “Auntie Maudie”, and she always called my mother “Spider”. I still have a copy of Terry Gwynn-Jones book “Pioneer Airwoman” which Auntie Maudie gave my mother on my mothers birthday in 1979. Maudie has written on the page with the Jonathathon Livingston Seagull Quote, the following inscription:
‘To Dear “Spider”
My first Australian friend.
With Great affection.
Maude (Lores) Bonney.
7 /12 / 1979″
I have read many articles about her but there is never refernce to the time she lived in Flemington (Newmarket) in Victoria.

She visited my family when ever she came to Melbourne and my mother and I visited her whenever we were in Queensland.

I am now 71 years of age.

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