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Notes for Clive Alvin Hupfeld: Clive was bom at Batchica near Warracknabeal in 1915. Clive was one of 11 children and times were tough. When he was young the family moved to Warracknabeal and then to Illawarra between Hall's Gap and Stawell. His
schooling began at Blawarra state school but after a short time the family moved to Stawell and he attended a privately run school. He then went onto Stawell State School no. 502 under the guidance of the notorious Miss Buck Thomas who taught him for some time. Clive regarded his school days as an interruption to the many outside adventures but he stuck it until the eighth grade. Rabbiting with traps and his small dog was an early venture. He would ride his bush bike out past Landsborough returning with many pairs of rabbits which he would skin and clean supplying them to some of the local butcher shops. The skins would then be sent off and he would receive payment for them by retum mail. In 1940 with the intention ofjoining the air force, Clive arrived in Melbourne. Upon registering he was told that he would be contacted by the authorities. While waiting he heard about a job at Deer Park. On arrival at ICI ammunitions factory the personnel officer asked Clive if he had a light. Clive replied that he didn't smoke. He was then told that he had the job as smoking was a no no at ICI. When he received his papers from the Air Force he told his boss that he would be leaving but he was told that as he was working in a protected industry he would be staying. That he did until the day World War two ended. He made the best of the situation and met people in and around Sunshine through his attendance at the Sunshine Baptist church. He boarded with several different families, the Cooks and the Carricks were among them. While boarding at the Carricks he became quite fond of the daughter Kathleen. He and Kath eventually became, a twosome and it was at this tüne that he decided it might be best if he boarded elsewhere. He enjoyed his time in Sunshine very much. They were married at the Sunshine Baptist church in 1946 and alfter a honeymoon in Tasmania they left Sunshine to settle in Stawell. Clive bought land at the comer of Longfield and Playford Streets in Stawell West from a chinaman and he set up a market garden. He supplied the fiuit and vegetable shop that he and his cousin Teddy Nikkelson ran near the Town hall in Stawell. After this his next venture was as a wood merchant supplying Railroad trucks füll of wood. He would send at least two füll rail trucks of wood to Melbourne per week, so this was very heavy and exhausting work. In the late 50s he decided to build Hup's Service station on the site of the market garden. This was finished about 1960. At the time Neptune Fuel company were seeking prospective land owners in regional areas, offering incentives to erect a garage with fuel and oil sales. Clive gave this some serious thought and sent ahead and built it himself as well as a residence next door. The money he saved by not employing a builder allowed him to put into extra stock. An Ice Works for the Ararat Ice company was also built on the site. He did mechanical repairs and met people frorn für and wide. Any spare time was spent fishing and rabbiting. Kath used to look after the service station while Clive atteiided the Melbourne Boat show each year, The service station used to close only on Christmas day and Good Friday. On those days the family would pile into the car and go away fro the day, usually to Melbourne to see Kath!s relatives. By the end of the 1960s Clive's back was giving him lots of trouble (a legacy of his days on the wood) and he had to look at selling the service station which he did in early 1970. The family then moved to Barnes Street. He went into Bee farming which he had been dabbling in since the war years. He did this for a number of years, selling honey to Cottees in Blackbum and various shops in the Stawell are until he had to give it up[ due to back troubles again. He was never really idle, always making anything he needed and fixing chain saws and rotary hoes for people who need them repaired. He also had a hobby of collecting things and never throwing anything out. Jack was always very proud of his wood pile, his vegie garden, his preserved fruit and his acquisitions from markets. He was very proud of his daughter Lynette, son-in-Iaw Max and his grandchildren Katherine and David. He greatly enjoyed the company of his life-time friend Ben-de Kelly. He had very strong opinions on how life should be lived which made it very easy to lock horns with him. Signs adomed the family home - there were signs everywhere! 'Taps - not too tight!''refiigerator door - not too long or too far!"car doors - doWt slain"anti-splash paper in the toilet'and so on. He found life hard going when Kath passed on. They were manied 49 years and 9 months when she passed away. He controlled his diabete# and looked after his dogs as long as he could but he never got over the loss of Kath. e