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"Be indefatigable in your purpose and with undaunted spirit resist iniquity and try to conquer evil with good, having before your eyes the reward of those who combat for Christ." -BISHOP MATTHEW GIBNEY 1874
THE PARISH. THE NATION. THE WORLD. Western Australia's award-winning Catholic newspaper since 1874 - Wednesday July 29 2009
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Small Aunt Dolly outlives birthplace milestone, big hearts • By Robert Hiini A SMALL but faithful community of Catholics gathered last weekend to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the dedication of St Anne's Church, Bindoon. Over 120 people turned out in a day that included adoration, Rosary and Mass as well as food and fraternity. Bishop Donald Sproxton was the main celebrant at Mass having earlier joined the congregation for a procession
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Young and old eyes meet as Mary Ellen Lyttleton is presented with great, great, great niece Hannah Markey, 8-months-old, by Hannah's grandmother, Sandra Nieman, during Mary's 100th birthday celebration on July 21 held at the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home in Glendalough. PHOTO' ROBERT
Celebration of centenary a moment of great happiness for family. • By Robert Hiini Fr Paul Fox and acolyte conduct Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in the Bindoon Church duing last Sunday's celebrations. PHOTO: ROBERT HIINI
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SHE'S a great, great, great aunt and the town she was born in - once a thriving mining hub - is now a long-abandoned ghost town but Mary Ellen Lyttleton, who turned
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100 years old last Tuesday (July 21), is still as sharp as a tack and unlike many people a fraction of her age, seldom needs her glasses to read. With nearly 140 people in attendance, she celebrated her hundredth birthday with a party organised by her family at the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home in Glendalough, where she has lived for the past six years. "Aunty Dolly", as she is fondly known by her 157 nieces and nephews, was born
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in the then-densely populated and thriving gold mining town of Kanowna - approximately 850 kilometres east of Perth, Western Australia. She was the second eldest of seven children and is the only surviving member of her generation. Today, Kanowna is a ghost town and piles of rubble are the only visible signs of a once thriving township. The family moved to Kalgoorlie in the 1920s and eventually to Perth in the 1940s, Please turn to Page 3