- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE4616
Lamoreaux, Patricia
- Occupation Horticulturalist, Volunteer
Summary
Patricia Lamoreaux was nominated for the 1997 A.B.C. Rural Woman of the Year Award, for the Kimberley/Northwest district of Western Australia.
Patricia is well skilled in horticultural techniques, having developed and run her own banana and paw paw plantation in the northwest, until storms cut the farm’s yields. She worked very hard in the community as well. She joined her local volunteer ambulance service, St John Ambulance and was involved in the publicity, fund raising, training of new officers, and generally helping raise St John’s profile in the region.
Events
- 1997
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Lamoreaux, Patricia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477579
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Resource Section
- 1997 ABC Western Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/wa.htm
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Site Exhibition
- Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html