‘It would have been so sad to watch one of them mourn the other,’ say daughters of Victorian couple

Apostolos ‘Jack’ Moulos held deep family bonds but late-stage dementia and lockdown separation made his time in aged care even harder

Merilyn Saunders, who loved sport, music and, above all, her family, spent her final two years almost entirely in isolation

Ralph Cordingley caught the virus in his Queensland nursing home. His family say he sucked the marrow out of life until the end

John Souisa steered refugees to safety and never stopped campaigning for Moluccan freedom

Emerenziana Lucia Favaro Balla was stoic and generous but those closest to her treasured her mischievous nature

After overcoming alcoholism, Paddy became a lifelong advocate for the marginalised and oppressed

Malama Valkanidis was a spectacular cook who left her home in northern Greece in the 1960s to build a better life for her family in Australia

Vicky Patsakos moved to Australia from Greece with her young family in the 1970s. The former St Basil’s aged care resident died of Covid-19 last week

Days after Emma Kotsakis’s 93rd birthday, the orphan who survived war and the loss of two children died of coronavirus in her Melbourne nursing home