1946 - Patricia Carrucan

Patricia Carrucan (1911 - 1989), was one of 4 children born to Kevin James O'Doherty Carrucan and Rubina Beaton. She was a great grand child of Peter Carrucan and Hannah Woods. After a childhood spent living in Europe, she completed nursing training and initially started working in Canberra. She later nursed private patients during the war. She married James Francis Phelan in 1944 and they bought a dairy farm outside Traralgon and lived there until the State Electricity Commission acquired the property as a buffer zone for the Loy Yang Open Cut Mine.
They had three children Andree, Patricia and Thomas.
Patricia died aged 78. She is buried in the Traralgon Lawn Cemetery.