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approachable man who could move in all strata of society and it was said of him that ‘while he could not stand still
on one spot physically, inwardly he had a great deal of patience’.
Eric Izod died in a motor accident on 19 June 1971. He had apparently had a heart attack while driving and the
subsequent crash ensured he did not live. His widow, three children and 13 grandchildren survived him. He was
buried at the McMillans Road cemetery according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church. He was clearly held
in esteem by the General Motors-Holden (GMH) group. The family received a number of letters from management
expressing sympathy on the loss of ‘a remarkable character... a most endearing bloke’. On 19 August 1971
Ron Withnall moved a motion of condolence in the Legislative Council so that it could place on record ‘its
appreciation of his meritorious public service’. Withnall went on to remind the House that no-one then sitting had
been a member in Izod’s day and that the Council had been very new at the time and much hard work hard was
needed to set the standards which followed. As he put it ‘the work that was done by the people at the time and by
Eric Izod himself needs to be placed on record’.
Family information; Northern Standard 23 April 1948; Northern Territory Parliamentary Debates, 19 August 1971; D Spain, oral interview,
NTRS 226 TS329; F Walker, A Short History of the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory, Northern Territory Parliamentary Papers,
No 1 of 1986; H J Wilson, ‘Knuckey Street’, 1993.
MARLENE IZOD, Vol 3.