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1903 – Sixteen-year-old Agnes Ashworth died after meningitis was superceded by pneumonia. Only a week before her death she was singing in the local church choir at Yackandandah, a former gold mining town in the north-east of Victoria. When she first complained of feeling unwell, her parents talked of taking her to the doctor, butContinue reading “Choir angel dies suddenly”