Vale Index

The recent history of Papua New Guinea is intimately bound up with the people who made PNG their home and, in many cases, their life's work.
It is therefore fitting, but also with deep regret, that we record the passing of members and friends.

For ease of reference, the list of obituaries is split into a number of alphabetical pages. Click on one of the buttons below for the required page.

SAAVE, Jan, OBE (4 October 2006)
SADLO, Lothar (3 September 2002)
SAIKO, Bill (12 March 1990)
SAMUELS, Jean (January 1997)
SANDILANDS, Alexander H (June 1999)
SANDERSON, Clive (21 January 1993)
SARCOZY, Geza (29 September 2000)
SARGEANT, David (Jack) (24 December 1997)
SAUNDERS, Christopher Joseph (5 May 1993)
SAUNDERS, Mary Raphael (14 September 1994)
SAVAGE, Angus Roderick (27 March 1992)
SAVAGE, Hazel May (13 July 2001)
SCHACHT, Walter (23 March 1983)
SCHALLMEINER (née Cooke), Jan (6 January 1999)
SCHAMSCHULA, Katalin (5 June 2002)
SCHINDLER, Ancie (4 May 1995)
SCHINDLER, Aubrey, MC (12 October 1998)
SCHLEUSENER, Bill (26 January 2006)
SCHMIDT, I [Mrs] (2 January 1982)
SCHOFIELD, Frank Donal (5 February 2011)
SCHNEIDER, Frances (December 1996)
SCHULER, Carl (20 August 1988)
SCOPE, Philomine Katterina (27 June 1995)
SCULLY, Phil (28 February 1999)
SEALE, Herbert Percy (Bill), OBE (16 August 1992)
SEARLE, Glendyn (Glen), MBE (May 1988)
SEARLE, Ken (26 April 1987)
SEARLE, Louis Keller, MC (8 September 2000)
SEBIRE, Paul (16 August 1985)
SEFTON, Colin James (12 July 1997)
SELBY, Barbara (22 September 2010)
SELBY, David (16 September 2002)
SELF, Ron (15 April 1997)
SELLEN, Dorothy Ella (30 August 1998)
SERAFINI, Ernest (8 January 1992)
SEXTON, Robert Elliot (Bob) (10 April 1995)
SEXTON, TD (Ted) (22 July 2010)
SEYMOUR, Lily (15 July 2007)
SHACKLADY, Thomas, MBE, BEM (22 January 2006)
SHACT, Norma (11 August 1985)
SHANAHAN, Pat, AO, RFD, ED (22 April 2012)
SHAND, Warner (24 October 1991)
SHANLEY, CG Adelaide (19 April 2009)
SHANLEY, Alexander (8 March 1993)
SHARP, Jack (13 September 2014)
SHARP, John A (1979/80)
SHAW, Dorothy E, MBE (27 August 2007)
SHAW, Joseph (22 October 2014)
SHAW-MAYER, Fred, MBE (1 September 1989)
SHEARD, Kilner Suttor (27 February 1991)
SHEEKEY, Kevin Sylvester (1 February 1997)
SHEEKEY, Peter (9 November 2003)
SHELTON, Edgar (Ted) (14 May 1992)
SHEPPARD, Edna Anne (26 October 1995)
SHEPPEARD, Val (Hooley) (Late 2004)
SHERRY, Helen (20 February 2000)
SHERWOOD, William Brian (17 September 2011)
SHOFPEE, M J (Jo) (October 1997)
SHOWELL, David (6 Jan 2014)
SHUTT, Horace Michael (12 October 1998)
SKELLET, Ivan Leonard (25 February 2012)
SIAGURU, Sir Anthony (16 April 2004)
SIKO, Anatoly (April 1992)
SIMNETT, Monica Elsie (4 May 1988)
SIMOGUN BEM, Sir Pita (11 April 1987)
SIMPSON, Alfred Moxon (11 November 2001)
SINCLAIR, Alexander Morrison (Sandy) (29 June 2003)
SINCLAIR, Bruce (17 June 1983)
SINCLAIR, Maud (8 March 1992)
SINGLE, Clive Vallack (30 June 1990)
SIPPO, William “Bill” George (12 February 2014)
SIRKO, Beatrice (8 August 1988)
SISARICH, Marjorie Della (26 October 1999)
SKINNER, Marie (10 February 1993)
SKINNER, Richard Ian, MC (4 February 1993)
SLEE, E J (Ernie) (30 July 1986)
SLINGER, Vera Lenory (16 September 1991)
SLOANE, Cecily (5 November 1987)
SMART, Leslie Boddington (24 September 2014)
SMART, Margery (March 1992)
SMART, Walter Percival (30 April 1995)
SMEETON, Marjorie (Badi) Beatrice Mary (14 December 2001)
SMITH, A L (December 1979)
SMITH, Alwyn (18 April 2006)
SMITH, Ernest Yarwood (10 October 1998)
SMITH, Gordon (8 August 1992)
SMITH, Helen Pearl (10 September 2001)
SMITH, Holly Eva (22 January 1992)
SMITH, John Edward Nayler ("JEN") (30 August 2011)
SMITH, Kathryn Hilda (19 July 1988)
SMITH, Len (14 February 1997)
SMITH, Reginald Ernest Carlingford (18 August 1990)
SMITH, Sydney Stephen (12 April 1995)
SMITH, Walter Roy (24 November 1984)
SMITH, William Artois, 1908-1992 (A Biography)
SMITHERS, Sir Reginald (2 January 1994)
SMITMANIS, Ivars (Ivan) Juris (15 December 2004)
SNEDDON, John Gillespie (7 June 1990)
SNEDDON, Thelma Eileen (17 February 1996)
SOMMERFELD, Noel Edward (12 December 2001)
SOWENI, Paul (15 August 1991)
SOWERBY, Elizabeth (27 July 1997)
SPEAKMAN, David (18 January 2009)
SPEER, Albert “Bert” (16 April 2014
SPENCE (neé Doyle), Mary Frances (Marie) (November 1990)
SPENCER, Brian William (7 July 1998)
SPENCER, Dora (6 January 2011)
SPENCER, Margaret, OAM (6 January 2011)
SPENCER, Terry (15 February 2002)
SPINKS, Iris (7 October 2001)
SPREAG, Sydney Raymond (5 April 1999)
SPOTTISWOODE, Edna Mary (1 July 1997)
SPOTTISWOODE, William Sterling (30 July 1994)
STANDEN, Eva, CBE (6 January 2005)
STANDING, John Alan (15 April 2008)
STANMORE, Ivy (5 January 2003)
STANTON, Terry (April 1988)
STANTON-CROUCH, Rev G (22 October 1999)
STEEGE, Gordon Henry (1 September 2013)
STEEPLES, Ethel (2 November 1986)
STEPHENS, Jean Agnes (20 August 1990)
STEVEN, David (7 December 2001)
STEVENS, Brian Arthur (4 April 2007)
STEVENS, RNB (Reg), DFC & Bar (21 July 2000)
STEVENSON, Beatrice (12 March 2004)
STEVENSON, Raymond Paul John, MBE, CSM (7 September 1999)
STEWART, Colin Ernest (21 December 1996)
STEWART, David (19 December 2006)
STEWART, Eric James (18 October 1996)
STEWART, John (21 October 1990)
STEWART, Robert George (5 June 2004)
STEWART, William (Bill) Donald, BEM (22 February 1996)
STEWART, William John Albert (22 December 1995)
STITT, John Alexander (3 June 1996)
STOCK, Esther (1978)
STONE, Kenneth Charles (25 April 2001)
STONER, Father Dom Anselm (11 April 1995)
STONG, H (January[?] 1980)
STORER, Josette (26 March 2006)
STORM, Eric (24 February 2000)
STOUT, Lorna (1 February 2008)
STRACHAN, Mary Caroline (21 March 1994)
STRATTON, James (Jim) Buckingham (8 September 2007)
STRAUGHEN, George Dixey (7 August 2015)
STRINGER, Rodney (12 June 2001)
STRUTT, Frederick Laurence (16 January 2000)
STUART, Joan Elizabeth (21 March 1998)
STUART-RUSSELL, Margaret (30 October 2009)
STUBBS, Laurie (14 April 2009)
STUNTZ, John Ronald (21 February 2015)
SULLIVAN, Des, DSO DFC (October 2007) Additional information
SUTHERLAND ROSS, Eric A (10 January 2005)
SUTTIE, Dorothy (4 December 1982)
SUTTIE, W J  (July[?] 1982)
SUTTON, Glen Edward (23 August 2012)
SYMES, William (Bill) David (18 September 1996)
SYMONS, Craig Andrew John (2 September 2011)
SYMONS, Elinor Dora (Lynn) (22 August 2005)
SZENT-IVANY, Joseph, AM (8 June 1988)
SZENT-IVÀNY, Maria Louise (née Csikszebtsimoni Lakatos) (9  March 2012)