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Obituaries & funerals, 1976

32 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

Death of former pharmacist

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 27 January 1976 · page 5

A Guildford woman who maintained cheerful good humour despite recurrent bouts of asthma…

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Death of noted stalwart in community

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 27 January 1976 · page 4

On Saturday, January 10, my fellow Aldermen and I were saddened to hear of the passing of one of our former colleagues, Mr. P. S. J. Sammut,…

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Tribune · Wednesday 10 March 1976 · page 11

Dorrie Mackinnon of East Melbourne (Vic.) passed away on February 26. The large attendance at her funeral last week indicated the regard of many people in…

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Tribune · Wednesday 31 March 1976 · page 11

Tribune regrets to report the death of Wally Fitzgerald, member of the FED&FA and long time militant in the mining and cement industries in the Western District of NSW…

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Death of the Lucky Country Death of the Lucky Country, Donald Horne (Penguin 1976, $1.50)

Tribune · Wednesday 14 April 1976 · page 5

This is perhaps the most useful brief documentary account of the Kerr-Fraser conspiracy which threw the…

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Elazar’s Military Funeral

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 April 1976 · page 1

TEL AVIV: Israel’s Chief of Staff during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Lieutenant-General…

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Tribune · Wednesday 12 May 1976 · page 11

Tribune regrets to report the death of John Clyde Henry in Brisbane on May 8, following a heart attack. Jack Henry was a legendary figure in the…

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Tribune · Wednesday 19 May 1976 · page 11

Tribune regrets to announce the death of Frank Purse for whom a private service was held last Friday. Frank Purse was for many years the…

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Tribune · Wednesday 9 June 1976 · page 11

Lorraine Noonan of Braybrook, Victoria, died on Saturday May 30, aged 54. Living most of her life in the working class suburbs of Richmond and Braybrook,…

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Tribune · Wednesday 16 June 1976 · page 11

The West Australian writer, Lyndall Hadow, died in Perth last week, two days after she had been made an honorary life member of the Fellowship of Australian…

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Obituary: Isaac Rubinstein

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 July 1976 · page 24

The editor of the Australishe Yiddishe Nayes, ‘for the past 18 years, Mr Isaac…

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Tribune · Wednesday 21 July 1976 · page 11

Jim McNeill, an international brigadier in Spain, died in Sydney on July 10 aged 76. Delivering the oration at his funeral, Ted Lipscombe spoke of Jim's devotion to the…

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Tribune · Wednesday 28 July 1976 · page 11

Leo (Tiddly) Sullivan of Geelong, Victoria, who died on July 8 at the age of 73, Was the last of the original members of the Geelong Branch of the CPA, founded in 1930-1931. In…

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The death knell of the fascist regime is very near

Tribune · Wednesday 28 July 1976 · page 3

MELBOURNE: "The beginning of our revolution in Spain is very near. Things are happening right now…

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Tribune · Wednesday 4 August 1976 · page 11

Jack Barton, an active member of the Communist Party of Australia since joining in the early 1930s, died on July 26. Jack was a carpenter by trade and shortly…

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Tribune · Wednesday 11 August 1976 · page 11

Tom Kennedy, who died recently at the age of 85, was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from the early 1930s…

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Tribune · Wednesday 18 August 1976 · page 10

The many friends and comrades of Tess Price will regret her death at Rockhampton, Queensland, on Friday, August 6, aged 81 years. Tess Price spent almost a lifetime in…

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Tribune · Wednesday 25 August 1976 · page 10

The death in Sydney on Monday, August 16, of S P (Sam) Lewis, ended a life of service to others. Sam Lewis, socialist, labor leader, educationist…

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Filmnews · Wednesday 1 September 1976 · page 5
Also in Tribune

HOLLYWOOD, August: Fritz Lang, the Viennese-born director of many cinema classics, died in Los Angeles aged 85. Lang,…

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