Migrants- Skopelos


Family Name: Gavalas  
Name: Evangelos
Year of Birth:   1949
Father's Name: Panagiotis
Mother's Name:   Ioulia Pattes 
Siblings:  Efstratios, Loula (Papandreou)
Year of Arrival in Australia: 1965
Sponsor:    Efstratios Pattes 
Married: Voula Kougianni (Kalambaka, Trikala)
Children:  Panagiotis, Alexis
City of Residence: Perth
 Livelihood: Business- construction


Above: Piraeus,  1965. From left, we are: Nikos Pattes, me, my brother, Stratis, and Giorgos Pattes.

Above Right:  Outside Steve’s Café in Geralton (1966). From left, we are: Kostas Argyropoulos, my brother, Stratis, my father, Panayiotis and me.


Evangelos has been an active member of the Mytilenean Brotherhood of Perth and Western Australia, serving –at various times-on the Committee since 1975. He has been President since 1990.