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Elaine Nile passes away UPDATE

11:27am Tuesday, 18th October 2011  

Elaine Blanche Nile (born 20th March 1936, passed away 18th October, 2011) was a former Australian politician. Born in Waterloo in Sydney, she was a comptometrist from 1951 to 1958 and a police matron at Darlinghurst Court from 1977 to 1981. From 1981 to 1986 she was manager of the Australian Christian Solidarity Paper. She was also an organiser and lecturer at Gardiner's Road High School in Mascot.

In 1958, she married Fred Nile, leader of the Call to Australia group (later the Christian Democratic Party) in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1981. Elaine was elected to the Legislative Council for Call to Australia in 1988, and served until her retirement due to ill health in 2002.

(From Wiki)

The Rev Hon Fred Nile MLC and family, the Management Committee and the NSW State Council of the Christian Democratic Party are saddened to announce the death of the Hon Elaine Nile at 8.15 pm on Monday 17th October, 2011 at Calvary Hospital. Elaine's liver finally failed as a result of cancerous tumours for which she had received treatment for 3 years.

Elaine served in the Legislative Council alongside her husband the Rev Hon Fred Nile MLC for almost 15 years, having been elected in 1988. Elaine resigned, due to ill health, in August 2002.

Elaine shared the "Balance of Power" (the balance of prayer and responsibility) with her husband Fred in the Legislative Council Chamber and was greatly loved by the members of the Christian Democratic Party and the wider Christian family throughout Australia and worldwide.

Elaine's love for her Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ and her faithful support of and loyalty to her husband was outstanding, a tribute to her Christian life and values.

Rev Nile said "I thank the Lord Jesus Christ that I was able to pray with Elaine and commit her to the Lord as she quietly passed into the presence of her Saviour. Elaine often expressed her strong Christian faith by saying 'absent from the body, present with the Lord'" said Rev Nile.

Elaine was the loved and loving mother of four children, Stephen, Sharon, Mark and David and dear grandmother to eight grandchildren, Joshua, Jessica, Montana, Jack, Matilda Lily, Elijah and Briarna.

Funeral arrangements will be announced in the Sydney Morning Herald in the coming days.