On the 31st Jan. 1985, Ida & Wallace Sandeman celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and a party was held in their honour at their daughter Prudence's home on Saturday, Jan. 26th 1985. Their sons Wallace, John and Paul with wives, children and grand-children were present including many friends and nephew Bill Muller and his wife.
Note: Ida was born on 25.5.1902 at Second Avenue, St Peters. She inherited her mother's black hair, and even in old age, had no trace of grey. She was born with a dislocated hip, which was not diagnosed until she was 16. By then one leg was shorter than the other and she was partially crippled. However, she refused to allow this to affect her. Ida married Wallace Richard Sandeman at All Souls, St Peters on 31.1.1925. They lived in England after the death of her mother in 1928, returning to Australia in 1934 to live with her father fist at St Peters, then at Magill. Wallace was an Able Seaman on the HMAS Cerebus IV in WW2 and given a soldier settlement at Prandana, Kangaroo River. In 1970, they lived on 9 acres at Arundel, Cygnet River, Kangaroo Island. In 1981 they moved back to the mainland and built a house at Shannon Rd, Bridgewater, in a valley surrounded by huge trees. On 31.1.1985, they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at the house of their daughter Prudence, with friends, relatives and members of their congregation from the Assemblies of God Church. Wallace died on 14.1.1988, reading a book in bed. Despite a car crash, which shattered the heel of her foot, Ida continued alone with household help, reading and making beautiful leatherwork. She died at Royal Adelaide Hospital on 15.8.1991, grandmother of 20 and great-grandmother of 22.
Note: After the death in 1928 of Ida's mother she and her husband were in England for some time, returning in 1934 to live at St. Peters with her father and then at Romolo Avenue, Magill. Following the second World War Wallace who had enlisted, as did his son Wallace, had a soldier settlement property at Parndana, Kangaroo Island which his son Michael later took over for a period. By 1970 they were at "Arundel", Cygnet River , Kangaroo Island, on a 9 acre property where they endured the experience of a bush fire, but the house was saved. By 1981 with all their family on the mainland they retired to a house they built at lot 100 Shannon Road Bridgewater, South Australia.
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