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Murray · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1938

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Heavy Mortality Among Cows Death of 17 Reported Total of 32 in last Few Days

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 3

Following the [?] among Mr. W. A. Coulston’s dairy herd at Bonegilla, when 15 [?] dairy cows died while being depastured on…

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Obituary. Mr. Alfred E. Butcher

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 2

We briefly reported last issue thawt Mr. Alfred [?] had died on Thursday afternoon. The deceased gentleman was born…

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Death of Albury’s Oldest Resident Mr. John D. Lankester. Had Passed Century Mark. End Came Very Peacefully

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 6

Albury’s oldest resident is dead. He is Mr. John Delappe Lankester, whose death occurred yesterday morning at the age of 100 years. Mr. Lankester dies at the home of his daughter, Mrs. D. Murray, corner…

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School Teacher’s Death Model of Body for Coroner. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 6

A strange, feature of the inquest to be opened at Newcastle to-morrow into the death, of Miss Dorothy May Everett, 27, will be the production of…

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Death of Pioneer. Mr Edwin Bott

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 3

The death took place at his residence Bull Plain, on Tuesday, 21st December, of one of the most widely known and respected district…

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Obituary Mr. John Ryan

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 2

It is with deep regret that we have to record the death of a former popular resident of the Jerilderie district in the person of Mr…

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Funeral of Mr. John D. Lankester

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 4

The funeral cortege of Mr. John Delappe Lankester. Albury’s oldest resident, about to leave, St. Mathew’s Church of England. Mr. Lankester at the time of his death was a little over 100 years old…

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Death of Mrs. Fairly at Corowa

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 5

Despite the use of modern methods, an attempt to save the life of Mrs. Fairly, wife of Dr. R. Fairly, of Corowa, failed. She died on…

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Death of an Outlaw Short Story

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 47

"THE Outlaw has triumphed again. He has sowed another city with salt, and swept up her wealth for his army…

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OBITUARY Mr. J. D. Lankester Mrs. Eileen Fairley

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 5

A tragedy deplored by everyone was the death on Wednesday Afternoon of Mrs. Eileen Fairley. wire of Dr R. A. Fairley, of Corowa. which Mr. John Delappe Lankester, who celebrated his 100th birthday on September 20 died at the residence of his daughter Mrs. D Murray North…

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Obituary Mrs Mary Burns

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 3

The death occurred last week of another pioneer resident of the district, in the person of Mrs. Mary Burns…

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Obituary Mrs Edith Morgan

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 2

It is with sincere regret that [?] chronicle the demise of Mrs [?] wife of Mr J. P. Morgan the sad event occurring at the…

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Obituary Mr. Henry R. HAWKSHAW

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 3

The death occurred at the Narandera District Hospital on Tuesday evening of last week after a lengthy illness, of Mr. Henry…

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Personal Items Obituary

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 46

The death, occurred at Deniliquin of Mr. Franklin G. Morrow, aged 44 years, who had been railway station master for nearly two years. He had…

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Death of Brocklesby Farmer Collapse Near Barn

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 8

Mr. John Robert Potts, 47, farmer, who resided about four miles from Broeklesby in the direction of Burrum-buttoek, died suddenly on Tuesday…

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Obituary Mr. Charles Alfred Izon

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 1

The death occurred on Thursday, December 30, 1937, at Brighton (Vic.) of Mr. Charles Alfred Izon, husband of the late Mrs. Helen Marion Izon,…

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Death of Cows Not Due to Grasshoppers Sudan Grass Develops Poison

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 11

Members of the scientific staff of the Victorian Department of Agriculture do not accept the explanation that mortality amongst dairy cattle in the Albury…

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Built Up a Fortune From 18/6 Death of Mr. Abe Nathan an Eventful Life Closed Instituted Time-Payment System in Australia

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 3

Once described by the London “Evening News” as the “Furniture King of Australia,” Mr. Abe Nathan, aged 81 years, died in a Melbourne private hospital early yesterday morning. Thus was “finis” written to a life full of eventful business…

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Obituary Inspector Burke

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 3

Inspector Edmund Allen Burke, officer-in-charge of Grafton police district, died on Tuesday morning at the Mater Miseracordiae Hospital, North…

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OBITUARY. Mr. George M. Shaw

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2

Mr. George Mark Shaw, who saw Hay grow from a village to its present dimensions, died in the Hay Hospital yesterday, shortly after…

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