Person    | Female  Born 1954  Died 26/12/2004

Dinah Fryer

Categories: Education, Tragedy

Countries: Australia, Southeast Asia

Born in 1954, Dinah Fryer was an Australian history schoolteacher at Golden Grove High School in Adelaide, South Australia, who was on her first overseas trip with her husband Chris Fryer and their two teenage daughters Michelle, aged 15 years and Louise, aged 18 years, at a beachfront resort in Thailand. They had gone there to celebrate her husband's 50th birthday, and were walking along Patong Beach, Phuket Island, when the waves of the tsunami came rolling in.

Her husband was taken to hospital with serious leg and foot injuries, but she was drowned after being struck by the tsunami, aged 50 years, on 26 December 2004. Her body was not discovered and identified until 4 January 2005. 

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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