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Edna Brown Edna Brown i(A118369 works by)
Born: Established: 1916 Hamilton (Vic) area, Western District, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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Edna Brown moved to Melbourne from Framlingham Mission when she was 15 in 1932 and settled with her family in Fitzroy. She married in 1934 in a Ministers house in Collingwood. Brown was involved in establishing the Funeral Club in the 1970s to help poor Indigenous families raise funds to pay for family funerals.

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