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23 June, 2025
Teacher and community stalwart
SUE HORSLEY 1952-2025 RETIRED school teacher Sue Horsley has been remembered for her pivotal role in the Newbridge and Tarnagulla communities. The Loddon Shire’s 2014 Australia Day Citizen of the Year passed away last month. She had been diagnosed...
SUE HORSLEY
1952-2025
RETIRED school teacher Sue Horsley has been remembered for her pivotal role in the Newbridge and Tarnagulla communities. The Loddon Shire’s 2014 Australia Day Citizen of the Year passed away last month. She had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2023. Sue was heavily involved in the community and especially the redevelopment of the Newbridge Recreation reserve after the floods in 2011 and 2022.
She had also served on the Newbridge Progress Association, Newbridge Football Club and Newbridge Arnold Llanelly Community Planning Committee. With husband George, Sue had completed the family’s mud brick house in the mid-1980s at the same time starting her teaching career that took her to schools in Dunolly, Tarnagulla, Murrabit for six months as principal, Strathfieldsaye and Lockwood South. She volunteered her services to Tarnagulla after her retirement and maintained that for the next 13 years.
Sue was born at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Sue had left school at 17, but finished as a mature aged student when she was 21. Her first job was as a data entry operator with the Department of Health and later studied in Bendigo to be a teacher. When she had completed her degree she joined the Education Department of the Northern Territory in 1978 and spent two years teaching in a remote aboriginal community in Willowra. Sue and George were married the same year and they returned to Newbridge two years later.
Several hundred people attended Sue’s funeral service, a testament to her contributions and friendships in the community. She is survived by husband George and children William, Sue and Christopher.
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