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Jack Sheedy
Jack Sheedy (1926-2023) was a former Australian Rules footballer and coach. He played for East Fremantle and East Perth in the Western Australian National Football League [now WAFL] and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. Sheedy attended [[../schools/index.html|Richmond State School]] in East Fremantle and [[../schools/boysschool.html|Fremantle Boys School]] in Fremantle, captaining both schools' football teams. He worked as a clerk at the Fremantle Harbour Trust (now [[../port/admin.html|Fremantle Ports]]). The Tradewinds Hotel was once known as Jack Sheedy's [[../hotels/plympton.html|Plympton Hotel]].
Jack Sheedy died in 2023. With the announcement, Peter Grigg put this 2004 photo in Facebook. The men are standing on the footpath outside the Fremantle Hotel in High Street.
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This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 26 June, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/people/sheedy.html (it was last updated on 15 March, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.