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Biographical Information: MARION HEATHER MILLER, born 15th April 1928 at Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales. Professional opera singer and teacher of singing, who has performed mostly operatic roles on the concert stage, radio and television. She has won the Adelaide Eisteddfod for aria and is also involved in organising the Penrith Eisteddfod and Nepean Lieder Society and writes a newsletter for the Friends of Lewers Art Gallery, Emu Plains, Penrith, New South Wales. She was present on 15th May 1955, as her godmother, at the baptism of Marion Anne Purvis (see 1.1.3.1.7.7.9.1.4. above), her 1st cousin once removed, in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia). Living (2009) in Mount Riverview, New South Wales. Married 1st (October 1955 in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)) Laurence David Sullivan (born 1927 in Birr, Co. Offaly (Ui Failghe), Ireland (Eire), died 1971), having one son:- MARION HEATHER MILLER married 2nd (17th May 1971 at Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales) Ronald Robert O'Sullivan (born 18th October 1927 in Sydney, died 11th November 1997), social worker with young people (Y.M.C.A.) and then Personnel Manager with a dairy farming company, son of Patrick John O'Sullivan (born 1900, died 1935) and Eileen May Smith (born 1901, died 1986), having one further son:-