Jordans Crossing Gazette

The Bundanoon Community will have many special memories of Suzy and are only too aware of her many contributions to the life of the village. As Suzy Taylor, she arrived here from Manly in 1980, together with husband, Tommy, and children Peter (7), Ben (4) and Sarah (2). They moved into the Railway Avenue home and quickly established themselves in community life. The boys become cubs and scouts and Tommy helped lead the cub pack and established his business as an electrician. Early on in Sarah’s life it was evident she needed help with her disability, Williams Syndrome, and Suzy set about finding local support, only to discover that very few local services were available. Suzy decided to do something about it. In 1981 she formed a support group for parents with disabled children. One year later they formed a committee – with Suzy as the President. They wrote countless letters and petitions, applied for grants and put in hours of work to set up the Toy Box Centre, initially in Stafford cottage, Bowral. In 1987 they acquired a house in Thompson Street, Bowral, where the service continues, now known as Bridges For Learning. During this time Suzy started studying, completing a diploma in community services in 1996. In 2001 she was awarded a Alister Arthur Robert (Mick) Greason was a true beef cattle man. He always said the best breed was the Hereford. His passing on the 8 June, 2017 at the age of 89 marked the end of a farming era extending for 108 years for the Greason family of Bundanoon. Mick had always raised cattle, both for the family butchery business (R Greason and Sons) and for sale. He learned his cattle skills from his grandfather Robert and father Alister and was able to ride a horse and crack a whip until he was in his late seventies. Mick’s favourite part of the day always involved checking the cattle. Even on a trip to the Northern Territory he found the old cattle yards on the Roper River and the feed lots in the rural areas of Darwin as interesting as the national parks and tourist sites. A butcher through and through, he liked nothing better than checking out the meat in the local supermarket or shopping centre to compare and comment on the prices or quality! Mick devoted his life to the family business and butchering, and he spent his retirement days still raising cattle at The Yards, the family property. The only son of Alister and Ruby Greason, he was born on the 27 May 1928. He had five sisters, and according to Mick, they all enjoyed telling him what to do. He did report that he was able to outrun them and often escaped going to Sunday School. Mick was a gentle and caring man who was well respected by the people of Bundanoon. He had a loyal group of customers, Bachelor of Education in Adult Education. Also in 2001 Suzy was presented with a Centenary Medal for her Service to the Disabled. In 2006 she completed 25 years with Toybox Centre and “retired”. She continued working in the Community Sector as a casual educator running groups for parents in the Highlands and the Illawarra. In 2007 she was one of 10 finalists for NSW Woman of the Year. She has spent many years volunteering with Kairos Prison Ministries, for ten years with the women in Berrima Correctional Centre. After Berrima closed she joined the Kairos Outside Women’s program supporting the female relatives of male inmates in the NSW prison system. One of her big interests was her garden. Since our marriage in 2005 and her partial retirement, she has transformed her garden, delighting in its produce, the flowers and the relaxation she had from pottering around. She loved attending both the Garden Club and the Community Garden. Environmental issues could really stir her up. Suzy was one of the first to volunteer for the Bundy on Tap Committee. When the project was finally launched in 2013 we were travelling in Italy. Watching Sky News there one night, we saw Bundanoon and the ban on sales of bottled water came on the screen. Bundanoon was finally on the international stage! Suzy passed away on Friday 29th September following a massive stroke at home two days earlier. She loved her life in Bundanoon and will be greatly missed by all her family and her many friends here. — Tony Molyneux Suzy Molyneux Mick Greason many of whom followed him to his next butcher shop role after the family sold the butchering business. For more than forty years he delivered meat on a weekly basis to the people of Penrose and Wingello, where he was met with cups of tea, scones and cake, and gifts of fruit on his way around the delivery trail. He would often be asked to help out with advice on problems or issues as he went, all of which he would do willingly. Mick’s amazing recall of events in the history of Bundanoon has provided invaluable material for the recording of the town history. His stories of growing up in the 1930–40s where he led a free and easy existence catching rabbits in the hills, riding horses, or just spending time with his mates around the township, were a fascinating insight into life as a youngster in Bundanoon. His ability to tell about the day-to-day life in the village has been recorded for future generations. He had an amazing collection of stories to tell, each one prompting a new story as he remembered another incident or local personality. Sport, particularly cricket, football and hockey, were Mick’s great interests. He was recognised for his talent in cricket and football, but being a left hander he always cursed the “right” handed hockey stick that his sisters could wield so successfully. He spent 30 years serving in the local fire brigade and was able to document many of the bushfires and town fires that had occurred in that time. Mick led a rich and rewarding life and was very proud of the family farming and butchering history. He leaves a myriad of wonderful memories for his family and his legacy for Bundanoon is of an oral and visual history that is now filed for future generations. Mick leaves a wife, two daughters, five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. — Diane Schwartzkoff remembering December 2017 17 jcg www.bca.asn.au