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In 1979 O'Donoghue married Gordon Smart, a medical orderly at the Repatriation Hospital, whom she had first met in 1964. He died in 1991 or 1992. He had six adult children from a previous marriage, but they had no children together.
Lowitja marries Gordon Plumer Smart on 5 January at Pichi Richi Pass in Quorn, South Australia. Lowitja’s mother Lily Woodforde dies on 17 October at Port Augusta Hospital, South Australia. She is buried in the sandhills of Oodnadatta.
May 9, 2024 · At age 47, O’Donoghue met Gordon Smart, a medical orderly from the Adelaide Repatriation Hospital, whom she married in 1979. Her fierce determination to improve the lives of Australia’s Indigenous peoples earned her the distinction in 1976 of being the first Aboriginal woman to be made a Member of the prestigious Order of Australia (OA).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 4, 2024 · In 1979, O’Donoghue, who had decided to forgo marriage and children in favour of working full-time, married a medical orderly, Gordon Smart, and it became a happy marriage.
Feb 5, 2024 · In short: Eminent Australians have today united in sympathy to pay their respects to Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue. The celebrated Indigenous leader died over the weekend at the age of 91. What's next?
Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue, a Yankunytjatjara woman, was born in 1932 at De Rose Hill, in the remote north-west corner of South Australia. She was removed from her mother at the age of two, along with two of her older sisters. Dr O’Donoghue and her siblings were survivors of a harrowing time in Australia’s history when Aboriginal children were ...
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Feb 5, 2024 · Prominent Aboriginal leaders - including Marcia Langton, Noel Pearson, and Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney - have paid tribute to Dr O'Donoghue as a giant of Indigenous rights.
