Daughter of HD Williams and Muriel (Mona) Lowery
Siblings: Keith, Meryl, Clive,Pauline
Feb 23 1919 – 8 Nov 93 aged 74
Zetta went to Tauhei school, starting in 1925,
Tauhei Scool,
Tauhei History (50 page PDF),
see page 12 for school role (1925).
Her daughter also went to Tauhei school, see page 13 Jocelyn Sutton (1949).
(Roger went to school in Morrinsville since the family was living in the H D Williams family home in Morrinsville by then 1951)
Married: Arthur Henry Sutton (1917-1947) on Feb 21 1942
Remarried: William (Bill) Lumley (1907 – 1983) on July 22 1965 Brisbane Australia
Children:
Jocelyn, Roger.
Over time, the 550 acre farm in Tauhei at Seifert rd, retained by HD Williams, and where Zetta and her siblings were brought up, was sold / transferred to his children, Zetta, Meryl and Pauline who employed managers to run the farms until they were eventually combined or sold.
(Clive worked on Zetta‘s farm after her husband Arthur was killed in a shooting accident in 1947, then eventually (1957) took over Parahiwi).
Meryl also bought / took over Zetta‘s, Keith‘s and Pauline’s parts of the block.
High death duties at the time would often require the sell-off of land in order to pay the duties, so land was often held in Trusts rather than individual ownership, making land transfers / trustee changes easier.
After Arthur’s death, Zetta raised her two children on her own, Jocelyn (born in Hamilton 1944) and Roger (born in Morrinsville 1946). page 32 of memoires
Joceyln trained as a Nurse and travelled overseas nursing for about 5 years, returning and marrying Neville in 1970, a teacher who she had met in Canada.
Roger went to St Paul’s Collegiate school in Hamilton and became a Pilot. He married Jenny in Perth Australia 1969.
Zetta developed Alzheimer’s disease and died in a rest home in 1993 in Auckland New Zealand at the age of 74.
Cemetery listing https://purewa.co.nz/loved/zetta-gwenith/