Olga Pauline (Holly) Deane (1900–1981)
Olga Deane, one of Sydney's most engaging people a decade ago, has died, aged 80. Olga was best known for her practice of sending mustard seeds, taped to cards, to showbusiness personalities and people facing troubled times. Her showbusiness scrapbooks are in the National Museum, Canberra. Olga was known as the Mustard Seed Lady. Her cards said: "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible unto you."
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Additional Resources
- papers of Olga Dean, 1944-1977, MS 6267, National Library of Australia
Related Entries in NCB Sites
- Deane, Olga Pauline (Holly)
- Deane, Pauline Charlotte (mother)
- Deane, William John (father)
- Geeves, Leona Phyllis (sister)
- Deane, Frank Roger (brother)
- Deane, Albert William (brother)
- Deane, Emily Clara W. (sister-in-law)
- Geeves, Philip Leslie (brother-in-law)
- Albert, Michel François (uncle)
- Albert, Adrien (uncle)
- Albert, Minnie Ethel (aunt by marriage)
- Albert, Sophie (grandmother)
- Albert, Jacques (grandfather)
- Albert, Otto Edmund (cousin)
- Albert, Alexis François (cousin)
- Oldaker, Maxwell Charles (influence)
Citation details
'Deane, Olga Pauline (Holly) (1900–1981)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/deane-olga-pauline-holly-22217/text32076, accessed 19 September 2024.
Olga Deane, c. 1924 artist unknown
Sydney Morning Herald, 25 October 1924, p 12
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Alternative Names
- The Mustard Seed Lady
Birth
1900
Glebe, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
Death
21 January,
1981
(aged ~ 81)
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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