Catherine Farthing-Knight

Background

Catherine Farthing-Knight was bom on May 2 in 1933, in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. She is a daughter of Kenneth Stuart Smalley and Reta Maude Showers-Smalley.

Education

Catherine received her education at Bendigo Technical School with a certificate of art in 1954. She also finished Tafe Holmesgren with an associate diploma of professional writing and editing.

Career

Catherine started her career drawing maps at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1953. She became a Girl Guide leader in Papua New Guinea in 1967, then went to Melbourne in 1972 and worked there to 1984.

Catherine also worked as a “Meal on Wheels” district commissioner in Papua New Guinea since 1967 till 1971 and as a pianist for Spastic Society from 1972 to 1986, and for Villa Maria School for the Blind since 1994 till 1996. Since 1996, she makes batik and works as a freelance writer.

Works

• book

  • Days With Gran 1995

Interests

• Music (classical and jazz), painting on silk, scuba diving, tennis

Connections

Catherine married Brian Farthing, a naval officer, on July 31, 1954. After they got divorced, she married Robert John Knight, an anesthesiologist, on April 27, 1991. They have children: Stephen Farthing, Catherine Barrow, Sally Ann Wilcox, Adam Farthing.

Father:

Kenneth Stuart Smalley

Mother:

Reta Maude Showers-Smalley

Ex-husband:

Brian Farthing

husband:

Robert John Knight

Son:

Stephen Farthing

Daughter:

Catherine Barrow

Daughter:

Sally Ann Wilcox

Son:

Adam Farthing