By MARG STORK
OBITUARY: Alice Churchill, January 29, 1916-February 9, 2013
ONE half of Victoria’s oldest set of twins has died, less than two weeks after celebrating her 97th birthday.
Alice Churchill — who lived in Dandenong North’s Outlook Gardens Hostel with sister Mary Colquhoun — died on February 9, 12 days after their birthday.
For many years, the Journal has reported highlights in the pair’s long, happy, and eventful lives.
Always community-minded, Alice and Mary featured for many years locally for their roles in conducting dances to help fund raise for the Angel of Mercy helicopter Peninsula Ambulance Dandenong branch.
For the past six years, the twins have been residents of the Dandenong North hostel which Alice moved into first.
Mary said that she was born one hour before Alice, and they often joked about Mary’s seniority.
When Alice spoke to the Journal of the excitement of their then-forthcoming 97th birthdays she said: “We are from a large family of 11, six boys and five girls, and are the daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Suckling, pioneers of Ballarat and South Gippsland. We attended school at Archies Creek.”
Mary said the highlight of Alice’s 97th birthday was the much looked forward to safe arrival — on her special day — of a great-great-grandson, marking a fifth generation of the Churchill family.
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