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Northern Rivers · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1953

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Flood Delays Funeral

Northern Star · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 2

Due to the continued flood conditions at Woodburn, the funeral arrangements for the burial of Susan Morgan, 17…

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Death of Mr. R. Gordon

Northern Star · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 4

One of the best known and most prominent citizens of the Northern Rivers, Mr. Robert Gordon, well-known…

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Obituary Tribute to Pilot

Northern Star · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 2

Members of the Lismore branch of the Air Force Association attended in numbers the funeral in Lismore on…

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Funeral Tribute to Mr.R. Gordon

Northern Star · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 4

With almost 200 people unable to gain admission to St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, the funeral…

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Obituary Mrs. F. Cooper

Northern Star · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday.—A resident of Casino for 30 years, Mrs. Florence Cooper, of 26 Johnston Street, died in Casino…

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OBITUARY Mr. W. Kilmurray

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 6

The death occurred at Kyogle Memorial Hospital on February 12. last, after a long illness, of Walter William…

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Obituary Mrs. Susan O'dwyer

Northern Star · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 2

The Rector of Lismore, the Rev. J. V. J. Robinson, conducted a service in St. Andrew's Church of England,…

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Obituary Miss M. C. Ronan

Northern Star · Monday 2 March 1953 · page 3

There was a large attendance of residents of Nimbin and surrounding districts at the funeral in the Blue Knob…

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Obituary Mr. William Adams

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 March 1953 · page 4

The death in St. Vincent's Hospital late on Friday night of William Edward Adams, of Back…

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Death of Mr. J. B. SCOTT

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 4

Lismore City Council gas engineer, Mr. John Scott, died suddenly in a car while on holidays…

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Death of District Pioneer

Northern Star · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 4

One whose life had been Staked with the pioneering of the district, Mrs. Amelia Jane (Millie) Hargrave, 84, died at…

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Obituary Mr. J. B. Scott

Northern Star · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 4

The funeral of Mr. John Brown Scott, gas engineer at Lismore City Council, will take place at 1.15 p.m. today from…

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Festival Tribute to Late Mr. J. B. Scott

Northern Star · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 4

Mr. S. J. Hosie was elected president of Lismore Musical Festival Society at a meeting of the management committee last night, following the death of the former president, Mr. J. B. Scott, in…

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Funeral Date Not Fixed

Northern Star · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (AAP).—The body of Mr. Stalin will lie in state in the Column Halls of the…

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Russia Announces Death of Marshal Stalin

Northern Star · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (AAP).—Joseph Stalin died in Moscow at 9.50 last night (4.50 a.m. A.E.S.T. today). He was 73. The Premier of the Soviet Union suffered a stroke on Sunday night and had grown progressively worse. News of the death reached London initially in a…

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Obituary Mr. Bernard McMAHON

Northern Star · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 4

MULLUMBIMBY, Friday.—The death occurred in Lismore yesterday of Mr. Bernard McMahon, one of the Brunswick…

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Stalin's Death Text of Official Announcement

Northern Star · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Friday (AAP).—Stalin's death at 9.50 p.m. Moscow time last night was officially announced by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers and the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Council…

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Death of Mrs. Jim Opie

Northern Star · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 4

In a serious state of health for the past two months, the death occurred in Lismore yesterday. morning of [?]…

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Malenkov to Reveal Future Plans at Funeral of Stalin

Northern Star · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—If precedent is followed, Georgi Malenkov, Russia's new ruler, will tell Russia, and the world, the course he plans to set, in an oration at Stalin's funeral on Monday, March 9. This was stated yesterday by Don Dallas, former Reuter…

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Funeral Tribute to Mrs. J. Opie

Northern Star · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 4

The hundreds of people who could not gain admission to St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. Lismore, yesterday…

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