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Riverina · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1931

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Obituary Mr. J. Moncrieff

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 5

Mr. Jas. Moncrieff has died after a comparatively brief illness at the age of 78 years. For some years deceased lived in retirement in Sydney, but the…

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Obituary

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 9

The death occurred at Wagga on Saturday of Mr. Harry Kong Fat, a retired storekeeper of Wagga, He was 95 years of age, coming to the…

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Obituary Mrs. William Ford

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

The death occurred suddenly from a heart disease at her home, Uranquinty, on Saturday evening, of Mrs. Sarah Jane Ford at the age of 61 years,…

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Obituary. Mr. Alfred Cardiff Mead

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 2

Mr. A. C. Mead, a very worthy citizen, succumbed yesterday to a serious illness from which there had been for some time, very little hope. His…

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Youthful Dalilah Planned Death of Elderly Lover Amazing Case Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

Fashionably dressed women fought one another to enter the court where Lisa Neuntann, "a 16-year-old Delilah," and two youths were charged…

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Funeral Mrs. W. Ford

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 3

The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Jane Ford, wife of Mr. William Ford, of Unamquinty, who died at her home on Saturday at the age of 61 years, took…

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Obituary Mr. George Roffe

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 6

After a brief illness of 13 days, the death occurred at the Cowra District Hospital on Monday evening of last week of Mr. George Roffe, at…

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Obituary. MR. W. H. ECCLESTON

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

There passed away of the Tumut District Hospital, at the early age of 29 years, Mr. Walter Harold Eccleston, son of Mr. William J…

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Obituary Mr. Louis Patrick Whelan

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

Much regret was felt yesterday, when it became known that Mr Louis Patrick Whelan, an old and respected resident of Jackson's Waterholes…

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Obituary Mrs. C. J. Prescott

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 2

Mrs. Prescott, wife of the Rev. Dr. C. J. Prescott, principal of Newington College, died on Sunday morning. With her husband she came to…

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Funeral

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 2

The funeral of Claude James, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Charles Bailey, of 97 Kincaid-street, Wagga, who died on Tuesday, took place…

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Obituary

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 8

Mrs. Mary J. Sheridan, who could fairly claim to be included amongst the carry pioneers of the Mossgiel Street. Hay, on Friday. 6th February…

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Obituary Mrs. A. E. Millard

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 3

Mrs. Grace Oakfield Millard, widow of Arthur Edwin Millard, dies on Tuesday at her residence in Riversdale road, Camberwell (V.) at the age…

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Obituary Ronald S. Stenhouse

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 2

The death took place in the Narendera Hospital on Monday last of Ronald Sydney, the 10 years and 10 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. S…

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Obituary Mr. Patrick Kearins

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 2

Mr. Patrick Kearline, who died on Thursday at his late residence, "Kildary," Carrington Road, Waversky, was one of the pioneers of this State…

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Obituary. Patrica Frances McDONELL

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. William McDonell of Queen street have had the sad misfortune to lose their 3-year-old child Patricia Frances who succumbed…

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Obituary Mr. Godfrey Davis

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 2

The death took place on Friday evening of Mr. Godfrey Ernest Lachlan. Davis an old and nighly res[?]ed resident of…

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Obituary Mrs. C. B. Minnett

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 2

The death occurred at "Rangoon," 104 Ben Boyd road, Neutral Bay, of Mrs. Minnett, wife of Mr. C. B. Minnett, formerly manager of the…

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Obituary Mrs. C. J. Prescott

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 3

Mrs. Prescottt, wife of the Rev, Dr C. J. Prescott, piracipal of Newington College, died on Sunday morning With her husband she came to…

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Slipped on Green Slime Inquiry Into Death of Boy Drowned at Merungle Hill

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 2

At an Inquest held by Mr. W. C. Bar­ker, coroner, at Court House, Leeton, on Thursday afternoon last into the death of an eight-year-old boy,…

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