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Daughter of Joseph LOWREY and Olivea Anne nee DAUNT

Matron Lowrey Dies --
The death took place at the A.G.H., Concord, of Miss Olivia Anne Lowrey, of Stroud, in her 64th year. Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.  Joseph Lowrey,  of the same locality on the Lower North Coast, and one of a very large family, the deceased lady, who was an out standing personality, was for the long  period of 18 years Matron of the Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone, relinquishing service, but only on medical advice, about six years ago and entering  into richly deserved retirement in the subject home town referred to.
Prior to going to Scone, Matron Lowrey saw four years' service in World War II, with the responsibility of the charge of an extensive hospital abroad,  where her splendid record of achievement was acknow ledged, just as it also was in Scone, where the town and district folk made her the recipient of a  most substantial testimonial in recognition of the wonderful service she gave the district as a whole. Always proficient in the perform ance of her duties, the deceased lady, who had been in ill-health for a protracted period, gave of her very best to the sick and suffering and was an administrator almost  with out peer. Many of the modern improvements and adjuncts to the equipment at the Institution were solely brought about by her indefatigable  purposefulness, her zeal, enthusiasm and organising ability. Nothing was too good for the Hospital, its nursing and staffs generally, and for the very  many patients whose treatment she supervised. This was ever her claim, and in presenting requirements, her overtures rarely fell on deaf ears by  Departmental officers or an unsympathetic public. Matron Lowrey also strived, and largely succeeded, in transforming the garden plots of the Institution, for she was a lover of the things beautiful — of flora, and here also she was a tireless worker to bring about results.
Matron Lowrey achieved a record gained by few tutors associated with the nursing profession. It was her remarkable success in the training of nurses at the Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone. Right down the years it was her justifiably proud claim that no nurse — and very many passed through her hands— failed in the A.T.N.A. exam. Hence not a few in the profession today owe a debt of gratification to the lady in question, who is now no more.
The deceased lady will be affectionately recalled by the very many friends she made in these parts, all of whom will commiserate with the members of  her family in their hour of sorrow. Interment was made in the Church of England Cemetery, Stroud. — 'Dungog Chronicle.'