Family background
Margaret Grace Schwebel (nee Thompson) was born in 1916. She and her four sisters grew up on Fitzroy Street, Newtown, in a boarding house that was run by her mother. She was married to Bill Schwebel in 1935.
Occupation & interests
Grace Schwebel was involved with the Miscellaneous Workers Union.
Local government service
Grace Schwebel was an alderman on Northcott / South Sydney Council in 1974-77.
References
‘South Sydney Women’, Tharunka, 9 May 1977, p. 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230402940
Rosen, Sue, Interview with Grace Schwebel for South Sydney Oral History Project (published as We Didn’t Have a Hot Bed of Crime), 16 July 1995
Rosen, Sue, Interview with Bill Schwebel for South Sydney Oral History Project (published as We Didn’t Have a Hot Bed of Crime), 8 July 1995