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Sister Kevin Knapp
Marna Louisa Knapp was born at Kiwi, Nelson, on 1 May, 1909. Her parents were Arthur Leslie and Mabel Louise Knapp (nee Mills).
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Sister Shirley Tunnicliffe
Born Margaret Shirley Tunnicliffe was born on the 16 February 1936 in the small town of Owaka in the Catlans to Margaret Liston McAra and Cyril Alexander Tunnicliffe, both early pioneer families of the area. The eldest of four children, Shirley was baptised Margaret Shirley but was always called Shirley. Shirley had two brothers Donald Alexander and Raymond James and a much younger sister, Shona Janet who was born in 1950 after the war.
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Sister Cecilia Scanlon
Island Bay’s Own ‘Flying Nun’: It started as a joke but before she knew it, Sister Cecilia, celebrating her 80 birthday, was flying down The Parade in Island Bay on the back of her neighbour’s Harley Davidson motorbike.