Mavis Halfpenny was born at the "Marina" Nursing Home, South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia.
She was just a babe in a washing basket when her parents moved from the Flinders Ranges in South Australia to Horton Park, via Tibooburra, NSW.
On the 28th September, 1935 in the Methodist Manse, Broken Hill, NSW, Mavis married Geoffrey Maxwell Evans born at Redfern, South Australia.
Only one child was born: