Virtual Cemeteries by Josh Mellor
ARA

Award Recipients and Local Heroes

A Virtual Cemetery created by Josh Mellor

28 memorials

For every global superstar there are thousands of local legends who throughout history went above and beyond to serve their community. I hope to catalogue as many as I can to ensure their names and deeds are never forgotten.

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Helen Joan Wilson Baber

27 Sep 1934 – 26 Apr 2022

Received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)...

Bathurst, Bathurst Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia

Dr Isabel Joy Bear

4 Jan 1927 – 8 Apr 2021

Link to Actual Burial (Colac Cemetery) — • —...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Eucalypt, Garden 2, Wall A, Position 182

Lorna Bennetts

10 Jan 1916 – 15 Apr 1993

Conservationist and Justice of the Peace (J.P.)....

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Agonis, Bed 3, Shrub 18

Maureen Doris Brunt

26 Dec 1928 – 30 Jan 2019

Maureen was the first female Chair of Economics in...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: R T M Pescott Lawn, Row BY, Grave 36

Sir John Vincent Dillon

6 Aug 1908 – 20 Nov 1992

Public servant. He was Victoria's first Ombudsman,...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: A C Downard Lawn, Grave 705

Sylvia Benn Gelman

17 Apr 1919 – 19 Sep 2018

The following is quoted from The Australian...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Jewish, Compartment A, Section 6, Grave 01

Rev George William Grant

27 Sep 1935 – 21 Nov 2014

Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Hakea, Garden 2, Rose 31

John Kenneth Higham

28 Oct 1951 – 20 Oct 2019

Track and field athlete. Received a bronze medal...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Genista, Garden 3, Bed 22, Rose 001R

John William Hocking

10 Jan 1919 – 3 Sep 2018

Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Eucalypt, Garden 2, Wall A, Position 125

Sir Herbert John Thornhill Hyland

1884 – 18 Mar 1970

Politician. Herbert's early experience in running...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Ficus, Garden 5, Tree 98

Peter Stuart Isaacson

31 Jul 1920 – 7 Apr 2017

Peter Stuart Isaacson, AM, DFC, AFC, DFM...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Cassia, Garden 1, Shrub 01

Douglas Kefford

11 Dec 1939 – 12 Aug 2020

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Brind, Tree 083

Sir Daniel McVey

24 Dec 1892 – 24 Dec 1972

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Fuchsia, Garden 1, Rose 5

Sir Angus Sinclair Mitchell

1 Apr 1884 – 16 Aug 1961

Sir Angus Sinclair Mitchell (1884-1961), grain...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Tristania, Garden F3, Bed 20, Rose 108

Dr Colin Blackwood Officer

1928 – 31 Dec 2017

Doctor, local environmentalist and community...

Seymour, Mitchell Shire, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Lawn, Row F, Grave 01

Harry "Hiro" Pamamull

5 Oct 1931 – 19 Mar 2015

Hiro was awarded a posthumous Medal of the Order...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Diosma, Garden 1, Position 105N

Mabel Venn Holroyd Parker

1901 – 20 Jan 1984

Mabel was appointed a Member of the Order of the...

Springvale, City of Greater Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

Plot info: Pittosporum, Garden G2, Bed 6, Rose 10