I lived in Moranbah for most of my working life and worked in Peak Downs coal mine where I worked myself through the safety department as an OCE (in charge of safety on the mine site)
My wife Betty contracted breast cancer in early 2000 and we sold up and moved to the Gold Coast to access better medical facilities. Her condition went into remission for about five years but eventually with other complicatilns the cancer took Betty's life in 2007.
We were married in mt Isa in 1965 and traveled around Australia while we s till had no children.
We bought and operated a Motel in Mackay for some years.
We travelled the world and Australia in our younger days verm much into tennis we went to the American US open and Wimbeldon and Australian open.