by Cemetery Admin | Mar 13, 2021 | Stories
Dorothy “Joyce” Quiddington was the owner of her “Junk-a-tique” second-hand shop in Main Road for more than 40 years and was well known as Ballarat’s collector queen. She passed away aged 82 on 1st September 2009 after a battle with...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Stories
Mary Abigail “Polly” Barnett (nee Goldsmith) was born on 26th September 1847, at Brighton East Sussex England, to James Herbert Goldsmith and his first wife Jane Barber. Jane Goldsmith died in 1848. She came to Victoria on the Dutch Ship the Six...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 6, 2021 | Stories
A radio presenter, teacher and performer, Monica Morgan made waves in the Ballarat Community at a time when men dominated the workforce and the media. Born 3 June, 1931 in Rochester, Monica was educated at St Joseph’s Primary School Ballarat and went on to...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 5, 2021 | Stories
Born in Dunkeld in 1934, Lesley May Dickie was the second eldest child to Madge and Percy Dickie. Lesley attended the Dunkeld Consolidated Primary School then went on to be educated at the Hamilton High School albeit for a short time as she left school at the age of...
by Cemetery Admin | Mar 3, 2021 | Stories
‘Inspirational motivator’ posthumously honoured. THE Zonta Club of Ballarat was in Donna Campbell’s blood. When the female-only service group was chartered in 1978, board director Val Sarah said Ms Campbell’s membership, and family impact, was not far behind. “Donna...
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