Palmwoods
District News

November
1998

Page 4

District loses a friend

ON September 30, Palmwoods and Eudlo lost a piece of the timber industry and sporting history, with the death of Walter Andrew Young.

Wally was born in Nambour on August 26, 1934, the youngest child of nine children born to Arthur and Elizabeth Young. He attended school at Eudlo until he was 14, then left to work with his father and brother Cecil to drive bullock teams. After the death of his mother in 1952, Wally and his family moved to Palmwoods.

He started playing tennis at an early age and was a keen competitor combined with his cricket. He did well in both sports, winning his first tennis tournament in 1949. He has held many executive positions over 30-odd years earning two life memberships one from Palmwoods Tennis Association and one from the Sunshine Coast Tennis Council.

During the 1950s, he met Coral Rigg and they later married in November 1960. During the next 14 years they had three children, Neil, David and Ainslie.

Over the years he worked hard running his own business: sawmilling, The Palmwoods Hotel and a transport business.

For the last two years, he struggled and fought to beat the cancer that finally took his life. With the kind and wonderful assistance of the Cittamani Hospice Service, who visited Wally each day to make his life more comfortable and pain free, and also to help with care 24 hours a day whenever needed.

With this help it fulfilled Wally’s wish of staying at home where his wife Coral nursed him until the very end. He never gave up at any time, even though times were very cruel. He had a fun-filled life with his family, music and sport. He will be sadly missed by his wife Coral, Neil and Cathy, David and Lisa, Ainslie and Jason and other family and friends.

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