Ranging from childhood before the aid of technology to overcoming one ailment after another.

Judy was born in 1940 as a Rowbottom her mother had a home birth.

It was common back then for many people to have a home birth; transport was an issue because money had always been a problem, as it was for many people.

She was born in Ringarooma, a small town in north-eastern Tasmania. She was the eldest of seven children, she liked to think she was the boss.

Both her parents worked in a sawmill; this caused her family to move around a lot.

She said even though it was necessary to move around she didn't think of her life as difficult even though she had seven siblings to look after.

"Like every generation, you have your moments, you have your sad moments," she said and noted that most of hers were happy.

Judy got married to Brian Barwick and had three children of her own; Steven, Karen and Leanne. She started working as a cleaner when her husband started having issues at work.

This led her to experience mental health issues. After a gruelling battle with cancer, she began her recovery. It was not long before cancer came back for revenge and she went under the knife to remove part of her breast.

The surgery was a success, but the relief did not last long when her husband became sick.

In 2013 her husband Brian died after a battle with dementia.

Judy said the two hardest periods of her life were fighting her cancer and watching her beloved husband forget who she was. She moved to a small farmhouse to avoid the hustle of city life.

It was not long after that she went on a short hike with her family that she grew sick once again, the doctors were able to narrow it down to a deadly infection in her body, but were able to locate the specific location meaning that it was left up to the antibiotic to fix.

After she had jumped another hurdle, she decided that she wanted to travel and live the best of her life. After she went to Melbourne, she went to Queensland, then to Toowoomba located near Brisbane.

She said her trip to New Zealand was by far the best. She had planned another holiday but her dream was cut short by health once again, while she was heating her cold country home, her dressing gown caught alight.

She was flown from her backyard to the Royal Hobart Hospital in an emergency helicopter. She had burnt 25 per cent of her body with third-degree burns, skin graft after another she was released three months later.

The recovery was long and painful, not just for her but her family as well.

Judy has now fully recovered and lived the very best of her life, she continues to tell the stories of her childhood and dedicates most of her time giving the best advice to her family.