96-year-old Dawn Waterhouse has lived through the Depression and World War II, but she says nothing quite compares to COVID-19

Sally Pryor
Updated April 18 2020 - 9:35am, first published 4:30am
Dawn Waterhouse, 96, has lived through the Depression and World War II, but says coronavirus is quite different. Picture: Elesa Kurtz
Dawn Waterhouse, 96, has lived through the Depression and World War II, but says coronavirus is quite different. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

When Dawn Waterhouse was about five years old, she asked her father what the word "prosperous" meant.

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Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor

Features Editor

As features editor at The Canberra Times, I love telling people things they didn't know - or even things they've always known - about the city we live in.

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