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Name	Vera Frances Deacon
Alternative Names	Vera Frances Pember
Born	19 July, 1926 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Died	17 May, 2021 (aged 94) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Hewett, Dorothy Coade (friend)
Occupation or Descriptor *	communist (1944-1997) New South Wales, Australia political activist (1944-2010) New South Wales, Australia women's activist (1944-2010) New South Wales, Australia historian (general) (1970-2010) New South Wales, Australia conservationist (1980-2010) New South Wales, Australia
Awards	Medal of the Order of Australia (recipient, 2020)
Legacies *	Vera Deacon Regional History Fund (NSW) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Australasian Book Society (committee member, ?-?) New Housewives' Association (NSW) (member, 1948-?) Realist Writers' Group (member, 1954-?) Realist Writers' Group (secretary, 1960-?)
Political Activism *	Communist Party (NSW) (member, 1944-1991) Search Foundation (member, 1991-?) Progressive Labour Party (NSW) (member, 1997)

* Dates are approximate

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