Person:Anne Thiem (1)

She always preferred the name 'Anne'. The name Dorothy was included by her father, Maurice Stephen Thiem, when he returned from Darwin after World War II.

Known as Anne, she was educated at East Adelaide Primary School Methodist Ladies College and Adelaide Teachers College. She did later study in Children's Literature at Flinders University in Adelaide's southern suburbs and had a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma in Education (Sec).

Anne was a secondary teacher of English, Classroom Music and Debating. She stopped teaching to have her two children and was actively involved as choir conductor of Marion Primary School during this time, each year taking the students to the Festival of Music Combined Choir. She then returned to teaching on a contract basis at secondary schools around Adelaide (including Hamilton Secondary College, Marion High School, Blackwood High School and Aberfoyle Park High School).

She was Elder and Church Secretary of St. Stephen's Uniting Church in Edwardstown, South Australia (the church closed due to falling numbers in the parish at the end of 1996). She was a church organiste at several churches including St. Stephen's Uniting Church, Spicer Memorial Uniting Church, and Church of the Good Shepherd (Anglican Church in Plympton, South Australia). She was a member of the Parish Council at the Church of the Good Shepherd. Learning from Rolland Mary and James Govenlock, Anne always had a great passion for the pipe organ and in 2000 purchased her own Johannus electronic pipe organ.

1. ↑ Birth Certificate.
2. ↑ The church was full for her funeral, with well over 150 people attending.
   The sermon was given by Reverend Sally Boothey.
   The cremation itself took place at Centennial Park.