Buried
Section 4 Subsection 1 Plot No 2 Lutheran
Buried
Buried at "Bethany", the family property at Kingaroy, Queensland. He had died at St Aubyn's Hospital, Kingaroy, on 23 April 2005, aged 94, and received a State Funeral in Kingaroy Town Hall at which Prime Minister John Howard and Queensland Premier Peter Beattie were speakers.
Born 23 FEB 1875
Born 4 AUG 1889
Born 29 AUG 1890
Born 13 MAR 1897
Born 16 MAY 1906
Born 8 OCT 1913
Died 8 OCT 1916
HE WAS INJURED DURING AN ALTERCATION IN THE BARBERS SHOP IN KINGAROY WITH A GERMAN COMMUNIST WHO FIRSTLY ARGUED WITH HIM AND INJURED HIM IN A SCUFFLE.HE DIED THE NEXT MORNING IN HOSPITAL .HE WAS OWNER AND EDITOR OF THE KINGAROY HERALD NEWSPAPER.
Born 11 JUL 1918
Residence 1919
Home Duties
Residence 1919
Born 25 APR 1919
Died 20 JUN 1920
Died 8 AUG 1920
Broncho pneumonia, Toxaemia and Cardiac failure
Born 17 OCT 1920
Died 7 NOV 1920
Died 16 FEB 1921
Died 25 JAN 1923
Born 28 MAY 1923
Residence 1925
Home Duties
Born 21 JAN 1925
Died 29 MAR 1927
Died 23 SEP 1928
Died 20 AUG 1929
Died 28 MAR 1932
Died 28 MAR 1932
Died 23 APR 1932
Buried
Section 1 Subsection 2 Plot 228
Occupation (Peanut farmer and land-clearing contractor) FROM 1933
From 1933 Bjelke-Petersen worked land-clearing and peanut farming on his family's newly acquired second property near Kingaroy, Queensland. He went on to work as a contract land-clearer, investing the capital raised in farm equipment and natural resource exploration, and developed a technique for clearing scrub quickly by connecting a heavy anchor chain between two bulldozers. By the time he was 30 he was a prosperous farmer and businessman. He had left formal schooling at 14 to work with his mother on the farm.
Died 3 JAN 1933
Died 31 JAN 1934
Died 16 SEP 1936
Died 30 JUN 1937
Died 1 NOV 1937
Sunday school radio broadcaster, 4SB FROM 1938
Broadcast a popular children's Sunday school session on Kingaroy radio station 4SB under the name Uncle John, beginning in 1938 and continuing until the last year of his life. A man of deep religious faith, he was president of the Queensland and federal conferences of the Churches of Christ.
Died 8 AUG 1938
Buried 9 AUG 1938
Died 17 OCT 1938
Kingaroy Shire Council FROM 1939 TO 1946
Served on the Kingaroy Shire Council for seven years, alongside chairing the local wartime patriotic fund. The Parliamentary Handbook records him as chairman of the shire council over the same years, where the Australian Dictionary of Biography and Wikipedia describe him only as a councillor; the two accounts are not reconciled here.
Died 20 AUG 1939
Died 14 OCT 1939
Died 1940
Died 15 JUL 1940
Died 1942
Buried 1 JUL 1942
Died 1 JUN 1944
Buried 2 JUN 1944
Died 11 SEP 1944
aged 56 yrs
Councillor, Kingaroy Shire Council 1946
Elected to the Kingaroy Shire Council in 1946, his first elected office, a year before entering the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Died 7 APR 1946
Died 7 NOV 1946
Buried 8 NOV 1946
Died 31 MAR 1948
Died 1 MAY 1948
Died 25 AUG 1948
Buried 27 AUG 1948
S1SS3 Plot 343 beside Charles in 342
Died 19 DEC 1948
Died 9 FEB 1949
Died 22 NOV 1949
Died 2 JUL 1952
Buried AUG 1952
Died 1 AUG 1953
Buried 4 AUG 1953
Died 4 JUL 1954
Died 9 JAN 1956
Ref Australia Death Index 1787-1985
Died 6 NOV 1956
Died 13 NOV 1957
Died 6 DEC 1957
Died 2 MAR 1959
Died 22 AUG 1959
Died 14 NOV 1960
Buried 15 NOV 1960
Died 15 JUL 1961
Died 30 SEP 1961
Died 27 JUN 1962
Died 8 SEP 1963
Died 26 JAN 1964
Died 9 FEB 1964
Died 21 FEB 1964
Died 3 MAR 1964
Died DEC 1965
Died 21 MAR 1967
Died 14 FEB 1968
Died 18 APR 1969
Died 15 MAY 1969
Buried 18 MAY 1969
Died 1 SEP 1969
Died OCT 1969
Buried at Memerambi Cemetery
Died 18 MAY 1970
Died 10 NOV 1970
Died 3 FEB 1971
Died 28 JUN 1971
Died 7 OCT 1971
Died 1973
Buried
Died 17 JUN 1974
Died ABT 1975
Died 9 JUN 1975
Died 21 JUL 1975
Died 8 NOV 1975
Died 23 NOV 1975
Died 19 APR 1976
Died 23 APR 2005
Died 20 DEC 2017