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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1954

110 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 6

Obituary Mr. Roy Augustine Keating

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 2

It is with deep regret that we record the sad death of Mr. Roy Keating, of Araluen, which occurred in Goul Base Hospital on Saturday, 27th…

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Late Mrs. Watson was Golf Leader

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 3

The passing of Mrs. Lena Watson on February 16 has been noted with grief by Queanbeyan Coif Associates. In failing health for some time…

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Obituary Mr. William Andrew Fosdike

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 2

By the death on 5th March in the Braidwood District Hospital of Mr. W. A. Fosdike the Braidwood district loses another of its old pioneers. Gradually…

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Death of Mrs. Bridget Thompson

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 2

Mrs. Bridget Ellen Thompson of Atkinson Street, passed, away suddenly yesterday morning in Queanbeyan District Hospital…

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OBITUARY Mr. Austin Alfred Peters

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 1

The death occurred on 14th March in the Queanbeyan District Hospital of Mr. Reg Peters, of 26 Park Street, ill in hospital for about two weeks and…

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OBITUARY Mr. Albert Michael Irwin

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 2

By the passing of Mr. Bert Irwin on 8th March the Braidwood is the poorer. One of the town's most popular citizens. Mr. irwin spent the whole of…

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Obituary Mr. T. R. Reynolds

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 2

The death occured in Sydney recently of Thomas Richard Reynolds father of the Rector of St. Clement's church Vass, the Rev. H. P. Reynolds…

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OBITUARY Mr. Horace Malcolm Sherlock

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 2

Braidwood district has suffered a grievous loss by the passing of Mr. H. M. Sherlock, chemist (familiarly known as George), which resulted from a car…

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Obituary

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 3

The death occurred on Sunday morning of Mrs. Jane Hickey, of Reidsdale, in the Braidwood District Hospital. A member of one of the…

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Late Mr. Coe Reid Shearer in Blade Days

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 2

Mr. Hugh Reid, who passed away at his daughter’s home at Williamsdale on March 27, was one of the pioneering shearers of…

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OBITUARY Mrs. Jane Hickey

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 2

By the passing of Mrs. Jane Hickey, relict, of the late Luke John Hickey, in the Braidwood District Hospital on Sunday, yet another link with the…

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Death of Mr C. Gruber

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 6

Mr. Christian Gruber, who died at Queanbeyan Hospital on April 3, was a good blade shearer in his younger days…

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Death of Former Q’beyan Woman

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 2

Mrs. Bridget Ethel Glanville, who died at Lceton on April 1, was born at Queanbeyan 64 years ago and lived here for much of…

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Death of Two Little Girls

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 3

The death took place at Sutton on Thursday, April 22, of Louise Margaret Bingley, aged three years…

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Passing of Albert Edward Moore Sudden Death of Prominent Q’bn Businessman

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 1

Mr. Albert Edward Moore, prominent Queanbeyan businessman, who collapsed and died suddenly in his Monaro Street service station about 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday, was one of the third generation of a family which settled in the district midway…

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Obituary Mrs. Peter Wold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 2

The sudden death occurred on Easter Monday of Mrs. Ada Wold, wife of Mr. Peter Wold, of Mascot. Her death came as a great shock to her…

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Late Mrs Ada Wold

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 2

Mrs. Ada Wold of Mascot, who died suddenly on Easter Monday, was a sister of Mr. Rees Crandell of Queanbeyan and Mr. Cecil…

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Obituary

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 3

The death occurred in St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, recently of Henry David (Harry) Wilson, of Dutruc Street, Randwick, and erstwhile of…

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Sudden Death of Sergeant Jock Imrie Many Police Marched at Big Funeral in Qbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 1

Police Sergeant (1/c) John (Jock) Imrie, 49, who collapsed and died suddenly at Collarenebri last Friday morning, was stationed at Queanbeyan for 27 years before being transferred on promotion as officer in charge at Gunnedah in 1952…

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Obituary Mrs. Honora Mary Hart

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 2

We regret to record the death of an old and highly respected resident of the Braidwood district in the person of Mrs. Honora Mary Hart, which…

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