Tarra Gindi Tasserone

Tarra was a South Sea Islander from the Loyalty Islands who worked for Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Foote of Quarry Street, Ipswich. Tarra was a prominent member of the Salvation Army in Ipswich for 25 years, most of it as the standard bearer.

“Alfred Foote saw Tarra sitting on the roadside and “took him under his wing”. Tarra went to live with the Foote's in Quarry Street, Ipswich. He was a friendly and well‐liked man who loved children. Mrs. Dorothy Payne who lived for a while with her grand-mother Mrs. Foote, remembered that Tarra drove them and neighbouring children to Ipswich Central School in a horse‐drawn vehicle (the horse was named Charlie).

Another grand‐daughter, Mrs. Estelle Kahler remembered that Tarra always had jelly beans to give the children. When holidaying with the family at Southport, he would row them across to Main Beach (no bridge then). Viva Cribb said she was told that when land was being cleared for a new house in Brisbane of Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Grimes (Mrs. Grimes was a Cribb) they asked Tarra what they should call the house and he said "Tarra Gindi". 

Mrs. Payne and Mrs. Kahler had a pet parrot which got loose. Tarra climbed a tree to recover it and fell. He injured his hip, complications set in and he died in the Ipswich Hospital.