By MARG STORK
OBITUARY: Patricia Golding, January 1926-September 2012
PATRICIA Golding was a talented woman of many interests and was widely involved in social groups and volunteer work across Dandenong.
Her eldest daughter Robyn described her as “versatile, a wonderful cook, a person who loved reading, knitting and crocheting, a helper with the serving of meals on wheels for the Dandenong Hospital service, a member of the Dandenong Probus Club and above all, a devoted mother and grandmother”.
Born in Brunswick to Maggie and Frederick Cline, Mrs Golding’s family moved to Dandenong when her father — a railway signalman — was transferred.
She attended Dandenong West Primary School and Dandenong High School and was later employed by a film-importing company in Melbourne doing secretarial work.
She met her future husband Alby Golding at a dance in the Dandenong Town Hall (now the Drum Theatre) and the couple married in the Methodist Church, now the Trinity Uniting Church, in Scott Street, Dandenong. They made their home in Bruce Street, Dandenong, and Mr Golding ran his own business as a plumber, tank and windmill maker for many years. Mr Golding died eight years ago.
Mrs Golding derived great pleasure from her three daughters , four grandchildren and three great-granddaughters.
Sixty relatives and identities of Greater Dandenong paid tribute to Mrs Golding at her funeral service on September 6 at Le Pine’s funeral services Dandenong chapel at which civil celebrant Wendy Withers officiated.
