Dixie Cram was born Olive Mary Stratford on August 15, 1919, at Kalangadoo to Mary Stratford (nee Chuck) and Basil Lindsay Stratford.
She is the last remaining of her five brothers, William, Reg, Alex, Albert and Martin, and three sisters, Phyllis, Eileen and Jean.
Dixie grew up in Tarpeena with her family and many cousins.
Dixie is the granddaughter of James Chuck and Martha McQuade.
She is very proud of her Chinese heritage and spent much of her youth in the company of her close relatives who were also descended from the old Chinaman.
She speaks fondly and often of her grandfather James Chuck (Chun Cheok) a native of China who ran a very…
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