Noreen Natalie BOURNE

   Cause of her death was Cancer.

  General Notes:

Noreen knew the Kellys who lived in the next street when she was growing up and always thought they were poor.

Noreen Natalie Bourne attended Sacred Heart Convent in New Town. She was living at 1 Arthur St Hobart when she was 19 years old.

After Enuis Sybil Bourne re-married Ralph Dyer the children were not wanted and so Noreen came to Melbourne and worked at the Fitzgerald's Shop as a window dresser before changing to armiature winding during the war. During the war she met Ronald Kelly in Melbourne again and was married in 1942. After the children went to secondary school, she became a supervising machinist at a clothing factory in Bell St Preston. A few years later she worked for home help with the Preston City Council.

Noreen and Ron moved to 10 Happy Valley Ave Blairgowrie and after Ron's death Noreen stayed ther until the house maintenance became too much for her and she entered the Lotus Lodge Nursing Hostel in Rosebud and then went to Tea Tree Gardens Nursing Home where she died with her son and daughter-in-law present.

Noreen married Ronald James Noel KELLY, son of Arthur William KELLY and Hope Angela Victoria LOCKLEY, on 14 Nov 1942 in Holy Trinity Church, East Melbourne, Vic. (Ronald James Noel KELLY was born on 24 Nov 1917 in Hobart, Tasmania, died on 16 Aug 1976 in Blairgowrie, Vic and was buried in Rye Cemetery, Vic.). The cause of his death was Heart Attack.