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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1984

17 stories in Sydney's papers

OBITUARY Alan Marshall remembered... Gurrawilla -- the storyteller

Tribune · Wednesday 1 February 1984 · page 10

Alan Marshall has been described as the most Australian of writers for his observations of the city and…

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Tribune · Wednesday 15 February 1984 · page 13

Tribune regrets to announce the recent death of former Labor member of the WA Legislative Council, Grace Vaughan…

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Tribune · Wednesday 29 February 1984 · page 13

Tribune regrets to announce the recent death of Reg Babb aged 78. He emigrated to Australia at the time when immigrants had to…

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Death of Famous Composer

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 March 1984 · page 19

JERUSALEM: Israel’s foremost composer, Paul Ben Haim, has died at the age of 86…

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Tribune · Wednesday 16 May 1984 · page 13

Tribune reports with regret the death of Normal Freehill, aged 92. Norman worked as a journalist in Sydney, served a…

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Death of Mount Scopus founder

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 May 1984 · page 24

Benzion Patkin who died in Melbourne last month, aged 82, was the founder of Mount Scopus…

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Tribune · Wednesday 6 June 1984 · page 13

Bill Heyfron, World War I veteran, 23rd battalion, and well known party member of the 30s and 40s (Traralgon) passed away…

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Tribune · Wednesday 13 June 1984 · page 13

Tribune reports, with great regret, the death of Bill Miller on May 31. He was, without doubt, a great…

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Tribune · Wednesday 27 June 1984 · page 13

With the death of Annis Sutherland on May 19 in Brisbane, at the age of 83, the Communist Party and many…

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Tribune · Wednesday 4 July 1984 · page 13

Tribune reports with deep regret the death of Jack Daley, general president and state secretary in Queensland of the…

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Reform not “death knell of Judaism”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 July 1984 · page 13

If Jews remain Jews during my life as a congregational minister, I will have accomplished something, Michael Datz, rabbinic intern at the Temple Emanuel…

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OBITUARY Unexpected death of Michel Foucault

Tribune · Wednesday 18 July 1984 · page 11

French writer Michel Foucault died on June 25 aged 57. He had just completed the second and third…

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OBITUARY Vic Workman

Tribune · Wednesday 15 August 1984 · page 12

Vic Workman will be remembered by socialist activists, unionists and. the labor movement, but not by…

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Death of AJWS stalwart worker

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 August 1984 · page 24

Communal personality and Australian Jewish Welfare Society (AJWS) stalwart, Paul Torok, passed away last week, aged 81…

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Aborigines Wa inquest into prisoner's death --questions of public scrutiny

Tribune · Wednesday 10 October 1984 · page 16

Acoronial inquest into the death of Aboriginal Robert Walker in a WA jail will start on October 16…

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Death of Official

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1984 · page 24

PERTH: Veteran WA communal worker, Abe Troy, died here Bast month, at the age of 80…

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OBITUARY Big farewell for E.V. Elliot

Tribune · Friday 7 December 1984 · page 14

Last Thursday, November 29, over 1500 members of the Seamens Union of Australia (SUA), and many other workers…

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