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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1964

18 stories in Sydney's papers

Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 29 January 1964 · page 4

MRS. C. FOLEY is no longer with us. Tribune staff along with her family, friends and comrades wish to record our…

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OBITUARY Ruth Portrate

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 7

In the sudden passing of Miss Ruth Portrate on January 21, the Jewish community lost a well-known…

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Obituary

The Biz · Wednesday 19 February 1964 · page 4

Mrs. Lizzie Kohler, of 68 Throsby Street, Fairfield, West, passed away at her residence on February 3…

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Death of Identity

The Biz · Wednesday 11 March 1964 · page 6

Lillian Louise Elsworthy, of Bridge St., Cabramatta, died on Wednesday, January 29…

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Obituary

The Biz · Wednesday 8 April 1964 · page 2

Mr. Harold William Stein, for many years a public spirited citizen of Fairfleld, died at his…

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Death of Jane Edwards at 80

Tribune · Wednesday 8 April 1964 · page 8

FERTH: Death here of the widow of working class martyr Tom Edwards severs another link with the historic Fremantle wharf struggle of 1919. Mrs. Jane Edwards Clater…

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Death of Mrs. Heckenberg

The Biz · Wednesday 22 April 1964 · page 2

Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Heckenberg, a lady who has lived most of her life in Fairfield…

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Death of Mrs. Joel

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 June 1964 · page 9

Messages of sympathy from all sections of the community were received by the Hon. Asher Joel, MLC, and his…

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Death of a Furnaceman Last week a worker died aged 70 years

Tribune · Wednesday 15 July 1964 · page 6

BERNIE was short and strongly muscled. His legs were knotted, veined and twisted with arthritis: the scars…

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Death of Identity

The Biz · Wednesday 12 August 1964 · page 2

The death occurred last Thursday afternoon of George Bernard Slender Avenue, Fairfield, after a…

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Death of Alexander Zawadzki

Tribune · Wednesday 26 August 1964 · page 6

Alexander Zawadzki, the President of the Polish Peoples' Republic and President of the Council of the State in Warsaw, died on…

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Death of Comrade P. Togliatti

Tribune · Wednesday 26 August 1964 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Communist Party of Australia Central Committee has cabled to the Communist Party of Italy an…

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In New? York Death of Ben J. DAVIS

Tribune · Wednesday 2 September 1964 · page 10

Trib P10 - in new yord death of ben J davis WASHINGTON: One of the outstanding leaders of the American Communist Party, Benjamin J. Davis, died last week in a New York hospital after a long illness. He was…

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Two days before the funeral

Tharunka · Friday 25 September 1964 · page 6

ON and on they went, past telegraph poles, trees, bushes , fields, shacks, houses and shops, bridges of iron and bridges of wood and bridges of iron and wood, creeks, dams, lakes, rivers, railway signal boxes, station, overhead bridges, freight…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1964 · page 10

The death of Comrade Ruth Moore of Werris Creek occurred in Sydney on Sunday 181064 after a long and serious illness…

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Death Of Y. Varga

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1964 · page 9

Yevgeny Varga, an outstanding economist and one of the oldest members of the USSR Academy of…

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The Biz News Glimpses Obituary

The Biz · Wednesday 11 November 1964 · page 2

Mr. Eric Tweedale, of Mary Street, Merrylands, former international Rugby Union footballer, suffered…

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Death of Leslie Morris Canadian CP leader

Tribune · Wednesday 18 November 1964 · page 10

LESLIE MORRIS, the General-Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, died last Sunday, aged 60, after a life-time service to the Canadian working-class. Writing (as he regularly did)…

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