February 6 - February 22 Volume 32 - Issue 3 Laurie Hession beside the original Hession family slab home at Nelson SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY - LAURIE HESSION The Hills District Historical Society Museum holds a treasure trove of interesting books, articles, artifacts, journals, furniture, family histories and so many other interesting things. Whilst there I purchased a few books about the Hills to Hawkesbury area. The Society have given permission for some of these stories to be reproduced, so here is the first snippet from a book entitled, Heart of the Hills, compiled by Elizabeth Porter. Service to the Community. Laurie Hession was born in 1923 at Nelson where he lived all his life. His ancestors were amongst the pioneering families of the district. The original slab family home was built in the 1850’s. He attended Rouse Hill Public School, then later worked on his father’s poultry farm. At age 20 he enlisted in the Army and served in New Guinea. He married Daphne Vaughan from Pitt Town in 1950 “Can you keep and they had 4 children. He lived through my dog from Sandstone getting out?” the 1939 bushfires and then went on to MARK VINT Sales form the Bush Fire Brigade at Nelson 9651 2182 Buy Direct From the Quarry where he served for 60 years. He was 270 New Line Road a tireless community member and was Dural NSW 2158 9652 1783 recognised for all his efforts in 1986 when [email protected] Handsplit he was awarded a Community Service ABN: 84 451 806 754 Random Flagging $55m2 Award. Laurie passed away in 2004, but WWW.DURALAUTO.COM 113 Smallwood Rd Glenorie was posthumously awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2005. 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