After her husband Sonny’s sudden death in 1936 Bernadine Frazer remained living on the Avonslea property with her children for a couple of years. By 1940 she had moved her family into a house in Elm St. Barcaldine. Notes in The Longreach Leader record some of the visits she had from her sister Rene, her sons Lex and Tom, and her nephew ‘Bryan’ Grant (the son of her only brother, Douglas). They also record her trip to Brisbane with her son Kerry. In 1947 Avonslea was sold, and by 1949 Bernadine had moved to 170 Boundary St. West End, Brisbane.