sentences:  Born at Pukemiro near Huntly in 1927, Thea Dale Flyger was the second child of Annie Eveleen (née Rainbow) and Stanley Arthur Flyger, an engineer, surveyor and builder.She was educated at Belmont Primary School and Takapuna Grammar School on Auckland's North Shore.Raised as an Anglican, she had a strict upbringing and taught Sunday School at St Michael's Church in Bayswater.