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Pioneer Blunt Dies After Long Local Service in Burra North
Edward Stephen Blunt of Burra North died at Burra Hospital on July 1 1947. Born in Sheerness England 1861 he came to Australia at 17 aboard Tiverton emigrant ship. He worked for Riverton butcher Lang then Overton and Berryman, married Ellen Slough at Riverton, joined South Australia Railways and began duties at Terowie. He was Station Master at Hanson for 30 years and raised four sons and three daughters. He served Hanson Methodist Church as Trustee and Secretary until 1926 and led singing at Sunday School anniversaries. After SAR retirement he lived in Burra North and engaged with the Oddfellows Lodge, rising to Past Provincial Grand Master. He joined the lodge in 1888 and remained active in Methodist work as Steward and choir member until health declined. His wife died about eighteen months earlier. Funeral arrangements were by C J Pearce & Son with six Burra North Church Choir men as pallbearers.