Everglades stalwart dies

Everglades stalwart golfer Maury Stubbs passed away on December 5.

Maury was a member of Everglades Country Club for 23 years and was a member of the Swampies for most of those.

In his younger years, he helped his mother run a hotel at Baradine.

Later he served an apprenticeship carpenter and joiner, and toward the end of World War Two, he enlisted in the Navy.

He served on corvettes and mine sweepers and was part of the occupation force in Japan at the end of the war.

After the war, he worked with Painter and Dixon constructing buildings.

His association began with Everglades when he supervised the first major redevelopment of the Everglades Clubhouse.

Maury was president of the Swampies for the last seven years and will be remembered for the articles he wrote in the club magazine each month.

Friend Jim Weir said: "He had a quick wit and a good sense of humour but a poor sense of direction.

"He hardly ever missed those trees on the right of the fourth tee and to us those tees will always be Maury's tees.

"Once when the Swampies were going to Kurri Kurri to play, Maury was missing and turned up late having gone via Newcastle.

"On another occasion, Maury and Bob deCarle shared a motorised cart.

"Maury said Bob was driving but Bob said it wasn't his foot that was on the accelerator when the cart careered through the clothes racks and on through the Pro-shop window.

"He liked to tickle the piano and that was what he was doing when he died."

He is survived by his wife, Marea, and two daughters.

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