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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1990

46 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3

Spotlight/the Arts Death of an art form?

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 January 1990 · page 7

AT MIDDAY in Tel Aviv’s Nahalat Binyamin mall, a crowd of bystanders gathers around a makeshift barricade set up outside a cafe where the…

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Obituary Farewell, Len Norris

Tribune · Wednesday 31 January 1990 · page 11

Len Norris was a victim of the tragic collapse of the Newcastle Workers Club. To most people he was 'Lennie' or 'Lennie the Liberator'. Born in Queensland, he joined the Brisbane tugs at 15 as a deck boy and became a member of the Seamen's Union. His apprenticeship was not…

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Obituary Farewell, Fred Moss

Tribune · Wednesday 7 February 1990 · page 11

Comrade Fred Moss died in hospital on December 24,1989 after an illness which plagued him for some time. Fred, aged 79, was born in Forest Lodge, Sydney in 1910 and was a veteran member of the CPA, joining in the early 1940s while in the army, and remained active till the…

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Obituary

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 9 February 1990 · page 29

JONAS Joseph "Bluey" Goldring —Newcastle Jewry's oldest member — died…

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Obituary Farewell, Norma Crinion

Tribune · Wednesday 21 February 1990 · page 11

Norma Crinion died recently in Sydney following arelentless and brave struggle against cancer. She was a CPA member for many years and worked for its National Committee for four years during the mid-'70s. She had many friends across Australia and overseas, most of whom knew…

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Obituary

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 February 1990 · page 37

INTERNATIONALLY renowned Hungarian graphic artist and stamp designer George Hamori died in Tel Aviv recently at the…

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Obituary Vale Ron Griffith

Tribune · Wednesday 14 March 1990 · page 11

Ron Griffith passed away on February 15 at the age of 68. He migrated to Australia from England with his parents at the age…

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Shin Bet men indicted in death of Gazan inmate

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 16 March 1990 · page 2

Jerusalem Post Reporter Two General Security Services (Shin Bet) interrogators have been indicted by the Jerusalem District…

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Obituary Wally Mussing

Tribune · Wednesday 21 March 1990 · page 11

Wally Mussing died in January at the age of 66. For the past 18 years Wally was manager of Tran- by Aboriginal College in Glebe,…

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Obituary WinWalsham

Tribune · Wednesday 28 March 1990 · page 11

Winifred Keesing was born in London on February 13,1908 and died on March 18 in Sydney. She was a person of unswerving loyalty…

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Sense not sensibility in dealing with Aids Aids has caused the death of more than 990 Australians to date, while another 798 have been diagnosed as full-blown AIDS sufferers. The implications of these figures were discussed last week by three Jewish doctors and a rabbi in a special panel discussion at the Hakoah Club titled AIDS In A Single Society. The function was under the auspices of the National Council of Jewish Women’s Mix ’n’ Match singles group. Tina Diaz was there

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 April 1990 · page 29

CHAIRED BY clinical psychologist Dr Greta Goldberg, the panel comprised Dr Jules Black, World Association of Sexology secretary-general and…

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Obituary Joyce Slater

Tribune · Wednesday 18 April 1990 · page 11

On April 7, Joyce Slater died in Fremantle hospital from complications following an operation. Joyce was 74 years old and…

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Obituary Brian McGahen

Tribune · Wednesday 18 April 1990 · page 11

At the age of 38, Brian McGahen died as a result of AIDS. An original campaigner in the Sydney gay community around AIDS, and…

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Obituary Alflnd

Tribune · Wednesday 25 April 1990 · page 11

Alf Ind, a longtime member of the Building Workers Industrial Union (BWIU) died recently at the age of 82…

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Obituary Joyce Slater

Tribune · Wednesday 25 April 1990 · page 11

Joyce Slater showed great courage and her warmth and humor helped her through many difficult times. There was the long…

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Obituary Jack Rumere

Tribune · Wednesday 2 May 1990 · page 11

Jack Rumere, a West Papuan activist, died tragically in Adelaide in February this year after a battle with leukaemia…

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Chaim Bialik: Israel’s Soul Although 55 years have passed since the death of Chaim Nachman Bialik, he is still very much alive in the hearts and minds of the Israeli public. Carol Novis reports

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 4 May 1990 · page 35

IF MODERN-day Israel can be said to have a national soul, that soul is probably expressed best through the poetry, essays and children’s rhymes of Chaim…

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The Death of a Friend

Tharunka · Monday 7 May 1990 · page 16

Acceptance, it is a lie. Stab, rip, tear, I writhe in pain,…

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Obituary Itzhak Gust

Tribune · Wednesday 16 May 1990 · page 11

Itzhak Gust died peacefully at home on April 28, aged 91. He died short of one of his many wishes-to live in three centuries…

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Leader’s funeral

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 18 May 1990 · page 32

ABOUT 400 people attended the funeral of Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies president Paul Fingereth in Brisbane last week…

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