BUNINYONG Order of Australia Medal (OAM) recipient Christina Hindhaugh has been remembered as a marvelous, giving person.
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The advocate for women in agriculture passed away last week. She was 71.
A remembrance service was held in Ballarat on Wednesday.
Last January, Mrs Hindhaugh became the fourth sibling in her family to receive an Order of Australia citation. She was awarded an OAM in the general division for her services to the community of Balmoral and to women in agriculture.
Mrs Hindhaugh had close links to the Ballarat region.
She was the secretary of the Friends of the Buninyong Botanic Gardens.
Mrs Hindhaugh was also the executive director of Glenelg River Rosemary Farm; the largest commercial rosemary farm in the southern hemisphere, and the former president of Balmoral’s Australian Red Cross branch.
For a number of years she volunteered at Voice FM’s show ‘The Courier On Air’, where she read the newspaper from cover to cover for the visually impaired.
Station general manager Helen Bath said Mrs Hindhaugh was a wonderful spirit. “She was a marvelous, giving person,” she said.
“She was an amazing person and so capable of everything she tackled.”
Ms Bath knew Mrs Hindhaugh for a number of years through her volunteer work and through a close friend.
“I had known of her for many years, when she was on the farm,” she said.
Mrs Hindhaugh’s husband Chris had invented a piece of farming equipment, which was later bought by Ms Bath’s husband and his father.
Mrs Hindhaugh read the Courier during the show between noon and 1pm each weekday.
“She was on a roster of about 40 people,” she said.
“Two readers would come in and they would chop up the Courier and work out what to read. She was an incredibly capable woman,” she said.
Mrs Hindhaugh’s eldest sister is Tamie Fraser, who married the late former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Mrs Fraser received her Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) citation for her services to the nation.
Mrs Hindhaugh’s brother Hugh Beggs was honoured with a Member of the Order (AM) for services to the wool industry, while sister Eda Ritchie also received an AM for service to education, government, the arts and health.
