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Obituaries & funerals, 1981

20 stories in Sydney's papers

Alea:DEATH of a Bureaucrat

Filmnews · Thursday 1 January 1981 · page 13

Alea is most widely known for his Memories of Underdevelopment [Memorias del Subdesarrollo] made in 1968. Death of A Bureaucrat was made two years earlier…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 21 January 1981 · page 14

The death of 82-year old Jack Griffiths just prior to Christmas is a blow to his many leftwing associates in Footscray. An…

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Tribune · Wednesday 28 January 1981 · page 14

Frank Leslie who died recently had a long and honorable record In radical and revolutionary movements…

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Tribune · Wednesday 4 February 1981 · page 14

The sudden death of "Dickie" Morgan came as a profound shock to his many friends in Mascot and at the airport. As Qantas delegate…

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OBITUARY Wally Hume

Tribune · Wednesday 18 February 1981 · page 14

The NSW South Coast lost a well-known identity last week with the death of Wally Hume. For many years, Wally was…

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Death of Central Leader

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 March 1981 · page 20

Israel Golovsky, who led the Central Synagogue as president from 1961 until he retired because of ill-health…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 18 March 1981 · page 14

Jerry Gowland died on March 12. He was an active fighter for socialism all his life. Born in Broken Hill in 1904,…

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Death of "Mr Maccabi"

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 March 1981 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Pierre Gildesgame, known to thousands of Jewish sportsmen throughout the world as "Mr Maccabi", was…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 1 April 1981 · page 14

Mick Gallagher passed away on March 19. In his late fifties, he fell victim to cancer after suffering indifferent health for 12 months…

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Death of Leading Israel Journalist

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 April 1981 · page 32

Lea Ben Dor, the former editor of the Israeli daily newspaper The Jerusalem Post,…

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Death of noted Yiddishist

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 16 April 1981 · page 20

Shimon Mirels Cappe, one of the most steadfast fighters for the Yiddish…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 10 June 1981 · page 14

The peace movement of Victoria lost one of its finest people in the death of Reverend Arthur Absalom recently…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 1 July 1981 · page 14

Jack Coffey, who died recently after a long illness, left a fine record of dedicated service to the CPA in Victoria…

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Death of Fay Schenk

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 August 1981 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Fay Schenk, chairman of the Organisation Department of the World…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 9 September 1981 · page 14

Tribune regrets to announce the death o f veteran communist Peggy Hill on August 26 in Newcastle. Peggy was born in Scotland in…

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Death of former Sephardi rabbi

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 September 1981 · page 28

The death occurred in Israel recently of the former Rishon Le Zion, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim, at the age of 85…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 7 October 1981 · page 12

Bill Courcier died on September 24. He will be remembered by many older Communist Party members as an energetic and…

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Begin at Funeral

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 October 1981 · page 1

CAIRO: Despite warnings not to attend for his own safety, Israel Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, was among the dignitaries from 80 countries who participated in Saturday’s funeral for the late Egyptian…

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Death of a College?

Tharunka · Monday 26 October 1981 · page 11

JOHN AMY takes a look at the imminent closure of Robinson College Broken Hill. Will we be importing all our engineers in the year 2000? You may recently have seen chalk-ups…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 16 December 1981 · page 14

Tribune has only recently learnt of the death of Graeme Grassie who was killed in a car accident in Turkey in late…

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