Care Leavers Who Have Passed Away

This section of CLAN’s memorial is dedicated to those Care Leavers who have since passed away. (Updated 05/12/2022)

If you would like to give us the name of anyone to add to the list then please send the details to support@clan.org.au or call us on 1800 008 774.

VICTORIA:

Valda Hogan
Kevin Kane — Beaconsfield Babies Home, Kildonan Burwood – VIC
Walter Hamilton — St Augustines – VIC
Allen Radcliffe — Ballarat Orphanage – VIC
Pat Sheedy — 1/12/2001, St Catherines, Geelong – VIC Aged 57.
Ken Carter — Turana, Salvation Army Box Hill – VIC
Anthony Sheedy – Royal Park Depot, St Joseph’s Home – Carlton, St Anthony’s – Kew, St Joseph’s Babies Home – Broadmeadow, St Joseph’s Boy Home – Surry Hills, St Augustine’s Boys Home, Geelong, Turana, Bendigo Training Centre – VIC
Anthony John Wilkes — Kilmany Park Boys Home VIC and Fairbridge Farm School NSW
Camille Groves – Royal Park and Winlaton – VIC
William Ward – St Josephs Home, Ballarat – VIC
Jimmy Lapworth – Royal Park, Kilmany Park, Tally Ho – VIC
George Walsh – Victorian State Ward – VIC
Violet Richardson – Victorian State Ward – VIC
William Ward – St Joseph’s Sebastopol – VIC
Margaret Shields – Geelong @W. District Protestant Orphanage, Glastonbury – VIC
Adrian Thatcher – Melbourne Orphanage, Brighton – VIC
Walter Hamilton – St Augustine’s – VIC
Allen Radcliffe – Ballarat Orphanage – VIC
Maria Lorraine Stevens – Winlaton – VIC
Anne Kendall – St Catherine’s Geelong – VIC
Anthony Wade – Tally Ho, Burwood – VIC
Cedric Gadenne – Menzies Boys’ Home, Frankston – VIC
Olivia Sadler – Darling Babies Home – VIC
Barry Wilson – St Augustine’s – VIC
Margaret Chennall – Royal Park, Ballarat, St Lukes, Bendigo, Allambie, Winlaton, Pirra – VIC
Irene Kalves – Good Shepherd, Winlaton – VIC
Jan Barnacle – Royal Park Depot, Good Shepherd – VIC
Christine Bruce (Vella) – St Catherine’s, Geelong – VIC
Jeffrey Smyth – Bayswater Boys Home – VIC
Francis (Frank) McCaw – Salvos Box Hill Boys Home – VIC
Mavis Crawford – Ballarat Orphanage – VIC
Eunice Allsopp – Allambie, Kardinia – VIC
Vivenne Gordon – St Catherine’s, St Anthony’s, Winlaton, Swinbourne Lodge – VIC
Nada Vedo – Winlaton – VIC
Yvonne Kemfert – Ballarat Orphanage VIC
Ray Prosser – Royal Park, Box Hill Boys – VIC
Margaret Burke – Royal Park, Good Shepherd Abbotsford – VIC
Ted Bastow – Burwood Boys Home – VIC
Brian Fry – St Augustine’s – VIC
Ken Craig – Tally Ho, Burwood – VIC
Graeme McLeod – Kildonan Burwood, Kilmany Park, Sale – VIC
Peter Hugget – Methodist Babies Home Sth Yarra, St Johns & St James Canterbury (called St Martins Homes for Boys) – VIC
Wayne Harriden – Turana, Tally-Ho, Burwood Boys’ Home, Kilmany Park – VIC
Valda Newman-Hogan – Marillac House, Winlaton, Abbotsford Convent – VIC
Clarrie Youens – Salvation Army Box Hill – VIC
Bob Golding – Ballarat Orphanage – VIC
Michael Little – St Aiden’s Orphanage Bendigo, St Vincent’s De Pauls
Eric Barker – Reared by Foster family in Bendigo

NEW SOUTH WALES:

Jay Wilkins– Havilah, Burnside, Mittagong Boys, NSW
Elizabeth Norris — Lynwood Hall NSW
William Joseph O‘Meally — Mt Penang Training School for Boys Gosford, The Farm Home for Boys Narara, Riverina Welfare Farm for Boys Yanco, St Vincents Westmead, NSW
Neville Williams — Church of England Boys Carlingford and Trigg Cottage NSW
Cynthia Bultitude — North Coast Children’s Home Lismore, Parramatta Girls Home, NSW.
Maureen McKernan — Parramatta Girls, NSW
Wayne Coulstock — Yasmar, Mittagong, Mt Penang, Dharruk Boys Home, NSW
Carol McDonald — Bidura, Lynwood Hall and Metropolitan Girls Shelter, NSW
Annie May Polldore – Parramatta Girls Home, NSW
Ron West – Royleston and Charlton Boys Home, NSW
Barry Jacka – Dill Mackie Home, NSW
Anne Summers – St Michaels Girls Home, NSW
Dennis Noonan — St Anthony‘s NSW.
Joy Crane Smith — Parramatta Girls, Hays Institute
Ray Flett — NSW State Ward
Reg Brown — Yasmar, NSW
Mary Mclean — Lynwood Hall in Guilford Sydney, NSW
Anne Summers — St Michaels Girls Home, Bathurst, NSW
Moira Stirton — Mater Dei Orphanage, Narellan, NSW
Mark Doherty — Gill Memorial, Goulburn, NSW
Elizabeth De Paul — Parramatta Girls, Hays Institute
Arthur Barratt — Gill Memorial Goulburn, NSW
Julie Walker — St Joseph’s Girls Orphanage in Goulburn, NSW
Dianne Summers — St John’s Orphanage Thurgoona, NSW
Garry O’Neil — St Vincent’s Boys Home’ Westmead, NSW
Arthur Trott — Boy’s Town Engadine, NSW
Christine Riley (Green) — Parramatta Girls, Hays Institution for Girls, NSW
Anthony (Tony) Bowes — St Joseph’s Cowper, St Vincent’s Westmead, NSW
Glenn Sparkes — Minda, Yasmar, Anglewood, NSW
Patricia Graham — Bidura Glebe, Lynwood Hall, Guilford, NSW
Les Arndell — Les was 100 at the time of passing oldest CLAN member – St Joseph’s Cowper NSW
Ron Arthur — Royleston, Yarra Bay, Fostered, NSW
Dianne Loveless — Burnside, Parramatta Girls’ Home, NSW
Jennifer Feaviri (Brown) — Parramatta Girls’ Home, NSW
Carmel Durant — Bidura, Glebe, NSW
Richard Scott — North Coast Children’s Home Lismore, NSW
Mavis Appleyard — Fairbridge, Molong, NSW
Geoffrey Meyers — Bidura, Royelston, NSW
Stephen James Lang — Dunmore Boys Home, Pendle Hill, NSW 1957-1963
Vi McVeigh — Lynwood Hall, Guildford, NSW
Eric Wheeler — Royleston, Mittagong, Weeroona, NSW
Dianne Witchard — Mater Dei Orphanage, Narellan, NSW
Frances Muller — St Joseph’s Orphanage, Gore Hill, NSW
Mary Veronica Nagel — Dalwood Children’s Home, NSW
Nola Choplek (nee Rollinson) — Lynwood Hall, Guilford, Bidura Glebe, St Joseph’s Lane Cove, Monte Pio, Maitland, NSW
Kenneth Hoggard — Croagh Patrick, Orange, St Vincent’s Westmead, NSW
Mary Bradley — Mater Dei Narellan at 14 years, Magdalene Laundry Tempe, NSW
June Harvey — King Edward Foster Homes, NSW
Maryanne Brownley — St Patrick’s Armidale, Foster Care, NSW
Maureen Green — St Anne’s , Liverpool, NSW
Ron Allis – Clontarf, Bindoon
Charles Clark – Royston, Bidura, Castle Hill, State Ward
David Owen – St Josephs’s Neerkol
Natalie Powell – Our Children’s home Ashfield
Carol Meehan
Sandra Hunt – Bidura (1958-59), Lynwood Hall (1961-62), Parramatta Girls Home (1962-63)
Dominic Scutella – St Joseph’s Orphanage Croydon (1975)

QUEENSLAND:

Vera Fooks was our oldest member at 98yrs — St Vincent’s Orphanage Nudgee, QLD.
John Munt — Wooloowin, Alkira Salvation Army Home Indooroopilly and Riverview Training Farm for Boys Westbrook Toowoomba, QLD.
Neville Clewley —St Vincent’s Nudgee, QLD
Cliff Muir – Riverview Boys Home, QLD
Alva Sawyer — Marsden Home, QLD
Des Donley — Foster Homes, Salvation Army Homes, QLD
Bob Meikle — Riverview Boys Home, QLD
Christine Eustace — Bidura Glebe, Lynwood Hall Guilford, QLD
Frank Holden Snr. — Westbrook, QLD
Daphne Falconer — Neerkol Orphanage, QLD
Bruce Campbell — Indooroopilly Boys Home, QLD
Bryan Hartas – Neerkol, Rockhampton and Westbrook, Toowoomba, Qld
June Papacek – Nudgee Orphanage

WESTERN AUSTRALIA:

Barry Pinnell — Castledare, Clontarf, WA
George Parton— Barnardos UK, Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School Pinjarra WA
Elizabeth Clinch — Catherine McAuley Centre in WA
Edward (Ted) Apps — Castledare, Clontarf, Bridgewater, Mt. Lawley, Longmore, Hillston, WA
Anne Walsh — St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage, Subiaco, WA
Alan Whelton – Clontarf

SOUTH AUSTRALIA:

Kris King — South Australia Foster System, SA
Shirley Hinton – St Mary’s Adelaide, Farr house
Helena Maiolo – Goodwood Orphanage SA 1959-1966, Bridgewater Ass Centre WA 1969, Hollywood Childrens Village Nedlands 69-74
John Simmons – State Ward Glandore Boys Home

TASMANIA:

Barbara Joan Pettit — St Joseph’s Hobart, TAS
Victoria Stuart — Salvation Army Maylands, TAS
Ronald John Harris — TAS
Quenten Brooks — Hobart, Wybra Hall, Mangalore Boys Home, Foster Care, TAS
Patsy Brown – Mt St Canice Tas 1957-1959, Abused & sent to peoples Homes, a Nuns home in Syd, Detention Centre Syd 1958- by Welfare & Police Women