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Place of Birth: Fitzroy North, Victoria, Australia
About Gloria Pascoe
- Gloria Una Pascoe (born 19 February 1919) from Victoria is an Australian Paralympic vision impaired lawn bowler.
- She also suffered from epilepsy.She was born at the Salvation Army Hospital, North Fitzroy on 19 February 1919.
- Her parent were John and Cecil Gertrude Smith.
- She was the youngest of six children - Jack, Oriel (known as Judy), Elsie, Roma and Vincent.
- She grew up in the Greensborough area and went to Greensborough School.
- At the age of 14, she left school and attended Stott's Business College to train as a typist.
- In 1942, she married Alf Pascoe who was in the Air Force.
- Alf Pascoe died in 1988.
- She has a daughter and a son - Jennifer and Bruce.At the age of 9 whilst playing basketball in the school playground she lost consciousness.
- She was diagnosed as having epilepsy.
- As her life progressed, her eyesight was deteriorating.
- At the age of 55, she became totally blind.
- She received assistance from the Association for the Blind in Kooyong on how to live without sight.
- The Association formed a Blind Bowling Club and held its first Blind Bowls Championship at the St Kilda Bowling Club.
- She played bowls four years before becoming totally blind.
- She was able to play pennant bowls with sighted bowlers.She was selected to participate in 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem and she won a gold medal in the Women's Singles B.
- In 1981, she came first in the Victorian State Titles held at Footscray and as a result she was chosen to represent Australia at the Second World Blind Bowls Championships in England.
- At the Championships she won a silver medal.
- At the 1983 FESPIC Games, she won two gold medals.In 1983, she won the Progress Press Sports Star of the Year.
- In 1987, the Association for the Blind bestowed on her Life Membership for services to the Association.
- A book was published on her life - Gloria : light in the dark by Gloria Pascoe and Bruce Pascoe.
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