Clarice Olga (Davis) Leary (1916 - 2008)

Born 1916 in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Died 26 Jul 2008 at about age 92 in Nunawading, Victoria, Australia

Biography

Clarice Olga Davis (called Olga) was born in 1916 in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of Rebecca Davis and Solomon Davis.^[1][2]

Whilst a "mere tot" Olga performed xylophone alongside her sister Edna, including for a season at the Tivoli Theatre in Brisbane in 1925.^[3]

She married Ivan Robert Leary in 1939 in Victoria.^[4]

In her final years, Olga lived at the Coronella Retirement Hospital in Nunawading, Victoria.^[5] Olga died on 26 July 2008.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Clarice Olga Davis' birth record at Births, Deaths, Marriages Victoria: Reg. No: 31496; Reg. year: 1916. Retrieved 23 February 2017 by Clare Spring from https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj.
2. ↑ Leary, Alan (March 2009). "Elsa Davis, encore! - Happy Women's History Month." GillPolack. Retrieved 23 February 2017 by Clare Spring from http://gillpolack.livejournal.com/484523.html. Archived 22 February 2017 at http://web.archive.org/web/20170222132043/http://gillpolack.livejournal.com/484523.html.
3. ↑ "The Tivoli." 20 January 1925. The Brisbane Courier, p. 10. Retrieved 7 May 2017 by Clare Spring from http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20912511.
4. ↑ Marriage record at Births, Deaths, Marriages Victoria: Reg. No: 571; Reg. year: 1939. Retrieved 23 February 2017 by Clare Spring from https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} "Search for notices: Clarice Olga Leary." The Ryerson Index. Retrieved 29 July 2017 by Clare Spring from http://ryersonindex.org/search.php.