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Hollows was given a state funeral service at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, though he was an atheist. [18] In accordance with his wishes, he was interred in Bourke, where he had worked in the early 1970s. [19] He was survived by his wife Gabi Hollows (an Australian Living Treasure), and children Tanya, Ben, Cam, Emma, Anna-Louise, Ruth and Rosa.
Fred Hollows: 1921 1993 Ophthalmologist; founder of The Fred Hollows Foundation: 1991 Peter Hollingworth: AO, OBE: 1935 Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane; head, Brotherhood of St. Lawrence; governor-general: 1992 Mandawuy Yunupingu: 1956 2013 Singer, Yothu Yindi: 1993
The Fred Hollows Foundation is a non-profit aid organisation based in Sydney, Australia, which was founded in 1992, by eye surgeon Fred Hollows. The foundation focuses on treating and preventing blindness and other vision problems in people and communities. It operates in Australia, South East Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
In 1972, Hollows graduated as an orthoptist from the NSW School of Orthoptics, specialising in disorders of eye movements and associated vision problems. During her orthoptic training she met Fred Hollows and joined him on the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program which aimed to survey and treat Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians suffering eye conditions including trachoma.
Tanya was the "Growing Pains" star's third wife. The pair met in Miami on the heels of Thicke's divorce from his second wife, Gina Tolleson. At the time, Bolivian-born Tanya Callau was working as ...
He finishes "I have said little in this review about Hollows's work, the restoration of sight in people living in poverty. The film admirably tells that story, delivering a superbly crafted coda which, without fanfare or hype, leaves no doubt about the esteem with which the people he has helped to help themselves regard him."
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
"My Three Sons" are now grown-up with children of their own. From 1960 to 1972, Fred MacMurray starred as the widowed dad to three boys: Mike, Robbie and Chip. (And, eventually, the adopted Ernie.)