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She was born in Sydney to Arthur Deery and Agnes Thorne. She did higher studies in the United States. In 1940 she came to
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Member of the board of the
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Valencia.
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Memories of Misia Kathy. History of an unknown yavi (1988).
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385:"Kathleen Phoebe Deery"
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204:Deery. She married
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165:Biography
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