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Note: She was born at Belmore Place,Hurstville which was a private hospital run by a Nurse Mead.Educated at South Hurstville Primary school and Sutherland High School.Worked for about one year with the Mini> stry of Munitions befor training at the Prince Henry Hospital as a S.R.N.Went to England in 1949 and trained at the Middlesex Hospital for an Obstetrics Certificate.Met Ian Thomson in May,1950.They be>
came engaged in the UK and sailed together for Australia in June.1951.They married in Sydney on 8th November,1951 and moved into their first house at Engadine in 1956.Later they bought a house at Pens>
hurst and Marjorie started working part time with a school for retarded children.She died on the 1st June,1974 as a result of a cerebral oedema and was the second heart donor in Australia.The transpla>
nt was carried out by Drs Shanahan and Chang at St Vincents Hospital,Sydney.The Recipient died a couple of months later
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