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21 November 2024
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Groups honour Dame’s humanity

LIFE-SAVING WORK: Josephine Samuel-King (back left) with the portrait of her grandmother Dame Jean Macnamara, her mother Merran Samuel and brother Fraser with presenters Jamie Kronborg (front left), Kate Sutherland, George Petrou, musician Mark Stephens – who wrote and performed a song honouring Dame Jean – and Burke Museum Friends’ president Daniel Goonan. PHOTO: Gary Coombe

BEECHWORTH'S Friends of the Burke Museum and Beechworth History and Heritage Society commemorated the life and life-saving work of doctor and orthopaedist Jean Macnamara at a presentation attended by 60 people in Beechworth town hall on Saturday.

The event – chaired by Friends’ president Daniel Goonan as part of the Ian Jones Memorial Lecture series established by the Friends in recent years ...

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