Cancer toll on Williamtown's Cabbage Tree Road near Newcastle

By Carrie Fellner
Updated July 15 2017 - 2:49pm, first published 1:49pm
"You have to wonder": Gaylene Brown at her home on Cabbage Tree Road, Williamtown, near Newcastle.  Photo: Jonathan Carroll
"You have to wonder": Gaylene Brown at her home on Cabbage Tree Road, Williamtown, near Newcastle. Photo: Jonathan Carroll

To her family, Boronia Howell was "the angel on earth that we knew". They were shattered when she was diagnosed with lymphatic leukemia at the age of 64. She fought the disease courageously for over a decade before losing her battle in 2003.

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