People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Merry, Isabella Elizabeth

Birth

20 February, 1907
Scarsdale, Victoria, Australia

Death

16 May, 2000 (aged 93)
Glen Iris, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

general debility

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Congregational
• Methodist

Education

• University High School (Melbourne)
• University of Melbourne
• Congregational College of Victoria

Occupation or Descriptor

• bank employee
• Congregationalist minister
• hospital chaplain
• social worker

Awards

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Key Organisations

• Congregational Union of Victoria
• Congregational Women's Association of Australia and New Zealand
• Women’s Inter-Church Council of Victoria
• YWCA (Vic)
• Women for Canberra Movement
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Victorian Congregational Women's Fellowship

Workplaces

• Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind
• State Savings Bank of Victoria
• Victorian Society for Crippled Children
• Queen Victoria Hospital (Melbourne)
• After Care Hospital (Collingwood, Melbourne)