Harry Jenkins (Scullin, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I missed most of today’s proceedings because I was at the funeral in Melbourne of Ivy Emma Sharp, who died last Friday two days short of 99 years and 11 months. I ask a little indulgence because she was my wife’s grandmother. She is survived by two children, nine grandchildren and I think it is 19 great-grandchildren. One of them is a student at the School of Nursing at Deakin University. Ivy never really sought to be the matriarch of a clan that large, but she became the matriarch. She was a very caring person. I remember the way that she struck up a friendship with my dad not because he was a member of parliament, a local doctor and an ambassador but because he had had a school holiday job at MacRobertsons and Nan Sharp had worked at MacRobertsons. She was always looking for those special things. May she rest in peace.

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