THE STORY THE BEGINNING - SARAH ALEXANDER HER PARENTS EUNICE EVELYN FROST SALLY MARRIES JOHN MOUNTFORD THE POST WAR YEARS THE POST WAR YEARS (cont.) CONCLUSION LIST OF COLLECTED SONGS AND TUNES

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Sally enjoyed singing all her life. At the age of 81 she sang at the 1975 Bush Music Festival.

Sally and Fred at her granddaughter's wedding in 1969

Since John Meredith's pioneering work, many collectors had visited Sally. In 1976 Warren Fahey and Graham Seal visited her in Lithgow. They spent a day interviewing Sally and listening to her sing and play. Warren had visited Sally on two earlier occasions and wanted to gather matenal for an LP recording of Sally.

By 1977 Sally and Fred had moved to 49 Coalbrook Street. Two years later they attended the Bush Music Club's Second Colonial Subscription Ball at which Sally was the guest of honour. In 1980, whilst on a holiday to Albury, possibly to visit Jean, Fred Sloane died. He was buried in Wodonga Cemetery near the New South Wales -Victorian border. Sally was devastated as she had lost her daughter Doris the year before. She moved from Lithgow and lived in a caravan in Jean's back yard. Tragically, in 1982, there was a fire and Sally was badly burnt. She was taken to Wodonga Hospital where she died three days later on September 20, 1982. She was 88 years old.

Sally and Fred at the Bush Music Club Subscription Ball 1979 © Bob Bolton