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A Caring Career
Olive Willis celebrated her 100th birthday on 9th January 2012
A Caring Career - that’s the title of an article that appeared in ‘Best of British – past
and present’ magazine in 2007.
It concerns one of the residents,
Mrs Olive Willis, at Quebec Hall, a Christian Residential Care Home
in Dereham.
Olive is in every sense a local – being born in Wendling, close to Dereham. However she didn’t stay here for long! She excelled in her training as a nurse in Peterborough and followed this up with midwifery training in Queen Charlotte’s In London. From that time on it seems that she was hardly ever back in the United Kingdom.
Her first appointment was to take responsibility for a mission station hospital in the Belgian Congo. In spite of several bouts of malaria, she was there for four years. She was then called up into the navy. She served on a hospital ship that collected hundreds of prisoners of war and took them home to Australia and New Zealand. Many were in a poor state of health but were glad to get back home.
On her return home herself, the ship was rerouted to take on board internees from Japanese camps and transfer them to Hong Kong. Her ward of 30 beds was filled with 112 patients!
But her travels did not finish with the end of the war. She joined the medical staff on the large cruise liners of the day including the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, visiting New York and Canada. Her last trip involved taking emigrants to start a new life in Australia. On her return, she married and settled in Kent before eventually coming back to her roots in Dereham. Olive loves to relive those exciting days.
Celebrating Christmas!
Celebrating Christmas
Our programme started with a visit from the local Cub pack on Monday 12th December at 7pm. The Children sang Carols and read poems and then spent some time mingling with our residents.
Celebrating Christmas
In Thursday 15th December Quebec Hall had its traditional Carol Service starting at 7pm. Trustees and residents helped to tell the Nativity Story with Bible readings and Carols. It is always a Joy to everyone to acknowledge the real meaning of why we celebrate Christmas, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Who, leaving the privileges of Heaven, was born as a man, humbly obedient to God, Jesus the Messiah, The Saviour of mankind, born to take our sin upon Himself, and for all who believe, have eternal life. Read bible verse John 3:16
Fireworks at QH
Fireworks at QH
Our fireworks evening on Friday 4th November was a great success.
Fireworks at QH
Over 60 people young and old celebrated a wonderful display of fireworks with soup and hot dogs.
Fireworks at QH
God provided a dry, still evening which was perfect for all those who came to watch.
New Website launched
New website launched
We have just relaunched our website and really hope you enjoy browsing through it. Let us know what you think by contacting us from the contacts page.
Quiz Night
Quebec Hall quiz winners
We can now announce that the winning team on our Quiz night with fish & chip supper, held Friday 14th October, was “The VIPS” You can see some very happy faces of the winning team!
Our next event will be our Fireworks Evening held on Friday 4th November at 6.30pm.
Care Quality Commission visit
Care Quality Commission logo
We have just received the latest report of the Care Quality Commission who visited us on 7th July of 2011. The Report advises us of their latest Inspection Report.
We have been told that the last Inspection indicated "No Requirements" and "No Recommendations" This is a first for Quebec hall.
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