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One tough Cookie

Peter Bannan

SWAN Hill’s eldest resident Dorothy Jean ‘Cookie’ O’Bree passed away on June 2 at the age of 107. Born on the Western Australian goldfields in 1910 to parents Dolph and Grace Rowe, Cookie spent her childhood there, experiencing good times and bad. Son-in-law Tom Warne shared his memories of one of Australia’s pioneering women. In […]

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