BOB Brown, a lifelong resident of the Glass House Mountains, has just celebrated his 90th birthday with family and friends at a morning tea at his home.
Bob and his twin brother Keith were the youngest of seven siblings born to Peter and Phyllis Brown who lived in a former Soldier Settler block in Johnston Road Glass House Mountains.
Although the family lived at Glass House Mountains, Bob and Keith were born in 1935 at the Lady Bowen Hospital in Brisbane.
Bob has therefore lived in the Glasshouse Mountains for all of his 90 years!
Bob attended Glass House Mountains State School from 1940 to 1948, experiencing wartime air raid drills, and still has his wartime identification tag!
His sister Doreen worked as a telephonist at the Beerwah Post Office in 1946.
Bob started working as a ‘Grease Monkey’ at the Glasshouse Garage in 1950 before returning to work on the family’s pineapple farm.
In 1962, Bob married Shirley from Brisbane, and together they raised five children: Raymond, Jeff, Sandra, Kevin, and Kathy.
Bob remembers loading the first bulk bin of pineapples onto a train from Glasshouse in 1961, a significant moment in the local farming industry.
A dedicated community member, Bob played a key role in the original ‘Glasshouse Mountains Heritage Group’ (2004) and actively participated in ‘Friends of Bankfoot House’ events from 2006.
