Portrait, Reverend John (Jack) Steer, Mrs. Myra Steer and daughter Joan, Pomona ca 1918

Rev. Steer helped raise funds to build churches at towns such as Cooroy, Noosa, Murgon and Kilkivan. Myra Pickering was born to Queensland Police officer Jonathan Pickering and Martha Elizabeth Harriet Sivyer in Tiaro. Myra worked as Assistant Clerk in the Noosa Shire Council office at Pomona, ca 1914 ( See images: T4004048 and Noosa Shire Council Meeting Minutes 1914_12_09 Ordinary Meeting) Joan Gwenifer Steer was the eldest child of the Reverend John Howard Steer and Myra Emmeline Pickering. In 1938 Joan married Peter Rutkin in Gympie. After raising 4 children the couple retired to Maroochydore. (Source: Find a Grave - here)

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OBITUARY (1947, August 8). The Longreach Leader (Qld. : 1923 - 1954), p. 11.