January 14, 2026
A funeral service was held in Kingaroy on Monday for former local councillor and Wattle Grove farmer William “Bill” Moss who died, aged 85, on Christmas Day.
Bill served on Kingaroy Shire Council for 30 years.
He was also a founding member of the Kumbia State Emergency Service group and served as an SES volunteer for several decades.
He was also involved in many other local activities and groups, including the South Burnett Show Society and the Inverlaw Farmers Hall committee.
Bill was born into a farming family in NSW in 1940.
After leaving school at the age of 14, he worked on his family’s property near Cowra as well as doing shearing and droving.
He married the love of his life, Rosemary, in 1959 in Sydney while the pair were still teenagers.
The couple settled near Cowra before moving with their three children to Wattle Grove in Queensland in 1967.
At Wattle Grove, they had three more children, farmed peanuts and Bill also did bore sinking and windmill repairs on local properties.
His areas of responsibility on Council varied over the years, including natural resource management, rural services, welfare, aged care and community safety.
He was part of the original Saleyards Committee that managed the relocation of the Kingaroy saleyards to Coolabunia in 1982.
Bill moved into Forest View Aged Care at Wondai in 2024.
He is survived by his wife Rosemary and a large family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The couple would have celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary next month.
