Alec John ANDERSON Mary Mercia DAVIS
b.2nd May 1921 b.24th September 1924
at Coffs Harbour, NSW at Toowoomba, QLD
d. 1st Jun 2004 d. 21st March 1982
at Toowoomba, QLD at Toowoomba, QLD
Snow first started cutting timber for T B Timms in the Dorrigo area when he was thirteen. He cut there with his brother Ken for about a year. Then they travelled to the Orara cutting sleepers for Jack Connelly. In 1937 they travelled to Mallanganee cutting hardwood for Toby Hewitson. They played football for the Mallanganee Football team in 1938, 1939 and 1940. They were undefeated in 1939 and 1940. In 1941 Snow was cutting timber on Hogarths Range, near Casino and played football for the Casino Rovers. At the end of 1941, Snow left and went cutting timber at Blackbutt, in QLD and in 1942 and 1943 he played football with the Blackbutt team.
Alec (Snow) and Mary (Bid) were married in the St Matthews Catholic Church at Crows Nest, just north of Toowoomba, on the 13th October in 1943. Bid was the daughter of Cecil George DAVIS and Elsie Meryl SCHEU. After their marriage Snow and Bid moved to the Bunya Mountains where Snow cut timber. Between the births of their two sons, Snow worked at Mulgrave River, near Gordonvale. Till 1950, Snow played football for the Kingaroy Kangaroos, and worked out near the Bunya Mountains, felling scrub and planting pine trees. In 1951 and 1952 and 1953, Snow went to Goomeri cutting timber.
In 1954, Snow travelled to Maryborough, and played with the Western Suburbs. In 1955, he played with South’s in Brisbane, and he worked with the Painters and Dockers, Evan Deacons.
From there he travelled to North Queensland and cut timber at Herberton, and played with Malanders in 1956. In 1957, still cutting timber for Donny Walker, Snow played football for Ravenshoe until 1960. In 1961, Snow moved to Innisfail and worked at Mourilyan Sugar Mill.
In 1962, Snow travelled to Tasmania, and when work didn’t eventuate he travelled back to the North Coast and worked in the Timber Mill at Grafton. In 1963, Snow went back to the Atherton Tablelands and worked at Mourilyan Sugar Mill and played football for Milla Milla. In 1964, Snow was surveying out at Eungella Dam, outside Mackay. In 1965, Snow travelled back to Ayr and played for the Rovers, whilst working at Australian Estate Sugar Mill. On the 30th November in that year Snow injured his back, and never returned to work.
Snow then stayed in the Ayr, Home Hill area until 1989, then moving to Highfields and Murphy’s Creek, near Toowoomba, before moving to Coffs Harbour in 1999 and returning to Queensland in February 2001. Snow and Bid had two sons.
Anderson Family Reunion 