It is with great sadness we recognise the passing of Myra Attwood of Murrumbeena Newsagency on the 27th August 2007. Myra was the wife of John, who has been the newsagent at Murrumbeena for 53 years, manager prior to that and paperboy before that.
A greatly respected member of the newsagency community.
Myra and John installed the love of the newsagency industry into three of their sons, who are also respected newsagents.
-Colin Attwood of Murrumbeena Newsagency – 22 years
-Greg Attwood of Ashburton Newsagency – 9 years
-Gerard Attwood at Keysborough now Sorrento Newsagency – 11 yearsMyra’s dedication to work, in order that the nine children could be fed, privately educated and generally provided for, was prodigious. An indelible image for all the children would be of their mum and dad sitting at the family home of 50 years in Malvern East and ploughing through the paperwork. One part of the administration was to maintain 1,000 customer accounts manually, to give you a picture of this, if the Sun News Pictorial rose by 3 cents, every account would have to be altered in a few different places and re-calculated. John would call out the details from the ledger and Myra would type it up. Myra will be dearly missed.
VANA would like to extend its deepest sympathy to John, Colin, Greg, Gerard and families.
A Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul will be offered at Holy Eucharist Catholic Church, 1242 Dandenong Road, Malvern East on Monday September 3rd 2007 at 11am. This will be followed by a Private Burial.
