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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1986

36 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 2 July 1986 · page 13

NANCY MARKS died last week from cancer after a relatively short illness, at the age of 64…

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Aborigines Wa Blacks organise political funeral

Tribune · Wednesday 2 July 1986 · page 3

PERTH: An Aboriginal family last week organised a double burial modelled on political funerals in South Africa. The…

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Death of Sportsman

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 July 1986 · page 31

Warren Spivak, 28, the Victorian table tennis player who lit the George Myer Memorial…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 9 July 1986 · page 13

Tribune regrets to announce the death of one of the best known and longest serving activists of the Communist…

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OBITUARY Noel Counihan-- continuous aesthetic, moral challenge

Tribune · Wednesday 23 July 1986 · page 10

Communist artist, Noel Counihan, died suddenly of a heart attack in Melbourne on July 5. after more than 50 years…

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OBITUARY --His lite force is abroad in the land

Tribune · Wednesday 23 July 1986 · page 10

In 1964 when the Communist Party acquired a new headquarters, I had a close association with Nnel in thn…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 6 August 1986 · page 13

BILL JONES, little Billy, was born in Brisbane in 1916 into a working class family. He was a delicate child, unable to…

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Death of activist Pachevsky

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 August 1986 · page 11

Talman Pachevsky, of Beersheba, one of the most active former Soviet Jews working on behalf of the refuseniks, died in a…

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Death of academic

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 August 1986 · page 4

One of Sydney Jewry’s greatest educators and academics, Dr Samuel Cohen, died…

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DEMO 'Death of multiculturalism'

Tribune · Wednesday 17 September 1986 · page 2

SYDNEY: The NSW Teachers Federation and the Ethnic Communities Council of NSW organised a rally in Martin Place last Sunday to protest against cuts to multicultural education and the English as a Second Language (ESL) program. The rally called on the federal government to reverse this blatant discrimination and restore funding…

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Obituary a tribute to Doug Gillies

Tribune · Wednesday 24 September 1986 · page 13

Many friends and comrades crowded into 12 Exploration Lane, Melbourne, recently to…

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Death of Quadrant Founder

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 October 1986 · page 30

The founder and publisher of Quadrant magazine, Richard Krygier, died in Sydney this…

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How the U.S. stifled the move for a Mideast conference The death of an initiative

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 October 1986 · page 3

IMAGINE Mr. Shimon Peres’s surprise when he reached Washington last month, after a very successful summit with Mubarak, only to have…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 26 November 1986 · page 13

A very big number of people attended Mt Thompson Crematorium, Brisbane, on November 7 to mark the passing…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 3 December 1986 · page 13

BILL BRITTON, who died in his sleep on November 23, will be remembered affectionately by many people…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 17 December 1986 · page 13

Those of us who were lucky enough to know GEORGE KRIEGER will always he B able to recall his great…

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