Former country newspaper editor Ella Ebery dies, aged 103

By James Button
Updated June 17 2019 - 9:27am, first published June 12 2019 - 2:00pm
Ella Ebery at work on the North Central News, St Arnaud. Photo: Pat Scala
Ella Ebery at work on the North Central News, St Arnaud. Photo: Pat Scala

Ella Ebery, who died on May 16, aged 103, was a shearer's wife and cook who realised late in life - too late, she always said - that she could be more than a wife and a cook. She was 58 when she got her first paid job, as a welfare worker. At 63, she began editing North Central News, the newspaper of St Arnaud, in the Wimmera.

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