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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 Maria Chinan aka Chinna
Maria an Indian Fijian entered the Sisters of Compassion but Discerned the life was not for her.
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Sister Sebastian Ryan
Dorothy Mary Ryan was born in Palmerston North on 12 October, 1896.