His legacy remains for all to enjoy Peter O’Reilly 1933- 2025 A TRUE legend of the region said farewell to his family and his beloved Lamington National Park this month. Peter “Big Pete” O’Reilly, the beloved patriarch of the O’Reilly family and a pioneering icon in the Australian ecotourism industry, […]
ALICE Gladys May Love (née Vicary) was born in Mount Morgan on April 28, 1921, one of nine children. She passed away at the age of 103 years, and ironically would have been 104 exactly 103 days later. Alice left school at 15 years of age to work in a […]
Gwendella Marleen Herrmann was born at Boonah on March 23, 1936. She was the eldest child of Edward and Voilet Herrmann (nee Sommer). Her siblings were Daphne (deceased), Lorreen (deceased), Shirley and Bevan. Pastor Finger baptised Gwen at St John’s Lutheran Church, Kalbar and she was later confirmed by Pastor […]
A loving wife and mother and dedicated community volunteer, Eileen May Johns was born on 3 December 1933 and passed away on 8 August 2023, aged 89 years. Eileen was born in Brisbane and grew up in Moorooka, attending St Brendan’s School until she was 14 years of age. When […]
William James ‘Billo’ Smith, son of the legendary band leader from the heyday of Brisbane’s famed Cloudland Ballroom, has died just a few weeks short of his 93rd birthday. A resident of the Scenic Rim for the past 10 years, Billo Smith Jnr passed away suddenly but peacefully in the […]
By Sheila Venz Ray Drynan was born on 12 February 1928. He was one of four children – brothers, Basil and Jack and sister, Joy. Like so many of that period in time Jack went off to war and was killed in action. Ray had an alert mind and […]
Margaret (Meg) McCarthy was born in Inverell, and had four siblings – John, Bud, Claire and Gay. She married Peter Cloonan and moved to Beaudesert in 1959 with their daughter Jenny who was only six weeks old. She was in a new house in a new town in a new […]
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