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Gooden, Margaret (Peg) (1900 - ) |
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Peg Gooden was born in 1900. Her father died when she was young so she and her mother lived with her grandparents in North Adelaide. She went to St Peter's Girls' School. In 1923 she married Harvey Lawton and they lived at Lower Mitcham and joined St Columba's Church in Hawthorn. Harvey Lawton died in 1930 and she remarried Lance Gooden in 1935. During World War II Peg joined the Comforts Fund committee and worked on the sock table. Music played a large part in Gooden’s life and she played at Lyceum Club lunches. She was also an active member of the Bowden Kindergarten Committee which helped underprivileged children. |
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| Sources used to compile this entry: http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:1083/search/dGooden%2C+Peg%2C+1900-/dgooden+peg+1900/-5,-1,0,B/frameset&FF=dgooden+peg+1900&1,1, accessed 2004-04-20. | |
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Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 14 November 2008 http://womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0912b.htm |