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Emest Righetti married and eventually moved to Queenstown in Tasmania
where (also following the example of his father) he ran a hardware store. He later
retumed to Heywood where he continued in the famUy store. The family Uved for a
time in Melboume but later moved to nearby Cora Lyn where Emest died in 1920. His
sister Lucy married a Church of England minister who became one of Heywood's
earUest clergymen. He rose the rank of canon and worked for many years as a navy
chaplain. Walter became a commercial traveller for Penfolds Wines, married and
settied in the Melboume suburb of Malvem. He regularly won prizes for his beautiful
flower garden, exercising a skiU which he had inherited from his mother.*^
Leonard Righetti remained in the store after his parents' deaths, married and
produced a family. He too became involved in community affairs, like his father
serving as president on the Portland Shire Council, from 1920 to 1921. Following the
sale of his store, the family moved to Malvem where Leonard became councillor and
later mayor of the Malvem City CouncU, serving from 1934 to 1935 and from 1938 to
1940.*^ Malvem was a prosperous middle-class suburb and the Righetti family were
the first people of Italian-speaking descent to reach prominence there. A park in
Malvem, alongside the South Eastem Arterial, carries the Righetti name. Leonard and
his sons each served actively in the Second World War, entering in all branches of the
forces. Developing the shooting skiUs of his father, Leonard twice represented
Australia at the Olympic Grames and his name has appeared in the biographical
dictionary Who's Who. The Righetti family, wdth its roots in poverty, had eamed a
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