Last update July  2009   Created by Tony Maple:  imlac2005@grapevine.com.au
Howard Clifford Maple & Elsie Beda White
William Henry MAPLE m.   Marion Ethel Pridham
Howard Clifford MAPLE
b.1-12-1900   d. 11-06-1997   V.Hbr
m.  6-03-1929, Quorn, SA
Elsie Beda WHITE
b. 16-08-1900  d. 16-01-1994  V.Hbr
Raymond Kingsley MAPLE  m. Dallas WOOD
Howard Maple was the 2nd son of William Henry Maple. He was born at Aldinga in 1900. He and his brother lost their mother, Ethel, before they knew her.
Both Howard and his older brother Garnet had an unhappy relationship with their stepmother. As a result Howard was brought up largely by his mother’s family, the  Pridhams, at Aldinga. This was a period of great happiness for Howard.
Howard’s grandmother, Rebecca Pridham, and his uncle, Hedley Pridham and Aunt Fanny nurtured him on Hedley’s farm. He loved the farm life but when Hedley sold his farm in 1920 he had to find work as an itinerant farm labourer.
For a time he worked on farms in the mid-north, but eventually joined the South Australian Mounted Police. In 1929 he married Elsie Beda White, a tailoress and the daughter of William and Mathilde White of Quorn, SA.  Elsie had a farming heritage.
Howard served as a policeman all his subsequent working life in the mid-north and south-east of SA.  He and Elsie were very active in the social, church and sporting communities of the many towns they lived. Elsie  and Howard were able to have only one child, their son, Raymond.
Howard land Elsie lived at Glengowrie from 1964 to 1990. They then moved into a nursing home at Victor Harbor.  Elsie died in 1994 and Howard died in 1996. Both are buried in the same grave at the Aldinga Uniting Church with James and Rebecca Pridham and reunited with Howard’s mother.
c. 1985  Elsie                   Howard
Mounted Constable Howard Maple  at Tailem Bend c. 1932