Mollie passed away aged 88 after suffering from Alzheimer’s for seven years. She was farewelled at St Mark’s in Darling Point on October 30.
Mollie started her career as a 17-year-old copy girl at The Telegraph in 1942 before moving on to The Daily Mirror, where she made a name for herself writing a weekly column entitled Women at the Top.
Her success in newspapers led to her nabbing the coveted job as social editor at The Weekly, where she covered everything from country race meetings to the annual opening of the snow season at Perisher – one of the biggest events on the calendar at the time.
In 1952, Mollie and her first husband Athol moved to Tanganyika in British East Africa, where she worked for three years.
Years later, she met the man of her dreams, her second husband Arthur Little. Theirs was a whirlwind romance, conducted in Sydney, London and many other places in between.
They shared many passions and were the inaugural patrons of The House with No Steps, which Arthur built.
Mollie is survived by her only son Rod Lyons and daughter-in-law Wendie-Sue, and 3 grand-children Malcolm, Tiffany, Michael and wife Gabriela and brother Ken Christie.
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