Sylvia Baillie - Postman's Ridge
Llync-Chiann Clarke and her son and daughter - Gatton-Helidon Road
Van Toan Giang - Durack
Jean Gurr - Grantham
Jessica Keep - Grantham
Robert Kelly - Dalby
Pauline Magner - Grantham
Bruce Marshall - Gatton
Steve Matthews - Murphy's Creek
Sandra Matthews - Murphy's Creek
Donna Rice - Toowoomba
Jordan Rice - Toowoomba
Joshua Ross - Grantham
Katie Schefe - Murphy's Creek
Selwyn Schefe - Murphy's Creek
Released by QLD Police
The devastation of the disaster that has struck Queensland is no more apparent than when it claims a life.
Tragically 16 people have died as a result of flood-related incidents that have occurred in south east Queensland since January 10, 2011.
The condolences of the Queensland Police Service are with the families and friends of these people.
The thorough search for people missing from the Lockyer Valley is ongoing, but will take some time given the scale of the area.
At this stage, the following people are confirmed as deceased as a result of the significant weather events felt by communities across the state:
Please find the list below.
| 1 | RICE, Donna Marie (43 years, female) | 10/01/2011: Swept from roof of car with son at intersection of James St and Kitchener St.,Toowoomba | |
| 2 | Male child, 13 years | 10/01/2011: Swept from roof of car with mother at intersection of James St and Kitchener St., Toowoomba | |
| 3 | Next of Kin to be advised - name known, 56 years, male | 10/01/2011: Trapped in house with wife by rising water at Spring Bluff (Murphys Creek). House damaged and deceased washed out. Wife also deceased. | |
| 4 | Next of Kin to be advised - name known, 46 years, female | 10/01/2011: Trapped in house with husband by rising water at Spring Bluff (Murphys Creek). House damaged and deceased washed out. Husband also deceased. | |
| 5 | CLARKE, Llync-Chiann (31 years, female ) | 10/01/2011: Rural Fire Brigade Truck (Fire Truck 51) which became inundated while on the Gatton Helidon Rd. Two occupants escaped to safety, three (mother and two children) trapped inside and were later located deceased in the vehicle. | |
| 6 | Female child, 5 years | 10/01/2011: Rural Fire Brigade Truck (Fire Truck 51) which became inundated while on the Gatton Helidon Rd. Two occupants escaped to safety, three trapped inside(with mother & brother) and were later located deceased in the vehicle. | |
| 7 | Male child, 12 years | 10/01/2011: Rural Fire Brigade Truck (Fire Truck 51) which became inundated while on the Gatton Helidon Rd. Two occupants escaped to safety, three trapped inside (with mother & sister) and were later located deceased in the vehicle. | |
| 8 | GURR, Jean (88 years, female) | 10/01/2011: Trapped within residence due to rising water. Located deceased within residence. | |
| 9 | MAGNER, Pauline Lesley, (65 years, female) | 11/01/2011: Located on creek bank near Sawmill in Gatton. | |
| 10 | Male child, 4 years | 11/01/2011: Child lost during attempted rescue at Marburg. Deceased swept away by floodwater along the Lowood Minden Road. | |
| 11 | Next of Kin to be advised - name known, 66 years, male | 10/01/2011:The deceased was located on 12/01/2011 in a room of his dwelling. | |
| 12 | SCHEFE, Selwyn Hector (52 years, male) | 10/01/2011: Residence swept away. Located deceased on 13/01/2011. | |
| 13 | Unidentified Male | 13/01/2011: Located in open paddock near Grantham. Not yet positively identified. | |
| 14 | KELLY, Robert John (30 years, male) | 12/01/2011: Located in Grey Toyota Landcruiser upside down in Myall Creek Dalby. | |
| 15 | Unidentified female | 14/01/2011: Located by SES searchers at Grantham. | |
| 16 | GIANG, Van Toan (24 years, male) | 13/01/2011. The MP
has driven to Durack to check on a family property. A friend saw him
walk about a 50 meters into moderately flowing water across Bowhill
Road and where he disappeared into the water and not re-surface. His
body has since been recovered. |
Anyone with information which could assist police with their investigations should contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au 24hrs a day. Crime Stoppers is a charitable community volunteer organisation working in partnership with the Queensland Police Service.
Last Updated: 15/01/2011
Last Updated: 23/01/2011
The Queensland Police Service is investigating the discovery of what appears to be human remains near Lowood today.
Lowood and the Lockyer Valley were heavily affected during last week's flood.
Detectives and forensic specialists are currently investigating on behalf of the Coroner.
Last Updated: 22/01/2011
The Queensland Police Service is investigating the discovery of what appears to be human remains near Murphy's Creek this evening.
The area was heavily affected during last week's flood.
Police were contacted at about 6pm by a resident who discovered what was thought to be human remains.
Detectives and forensic specialists are currently investigating on behalf of the Coroner.
Last Updated: 16/01/2011
Queensland Police Services regrets to announce that another body has been located in the Helidon/Withcott area today.
Officers located the body of a middle-aged man in a large pile of debris near Lockyer and Gatton Creeks, between Helidon and Withcott.
Police are yet to identify the man. A report will be prepared for the Coroner.
This brings the number of flood related deaths to 18 since January 10, 2011.
Anyone with information which could assist police with their investigations should contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au 24hrs a day. Crime Stoppers is a charitable community volunteer organisation working in partnership with the Queensland Police Service.
FUNERAL NOTICES -
RICE, Donna Maree and Jordan Lucas of Toowoomba taken tragically 10 January 2011, aged 43 and 13 years. Adored Wife and Son of John Tyson and much loved Mother and Brother of Chris, Kyle and Blake. All extended Family and Friends are warmly invited to attend the Farewell Service for Donna and Jordan to be held Graveside at the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, Cnr South Street and Anzac Avenue commencing at 11:00a.m. Wednesday, 19 January, 2011. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Qld Flood Appeal would be appreciated, envelopes available at the service. Deeply missed and never to be forgotten
News stories -
*A woman's body was pulled from Daveys Bridge at Gatton while the bodies of four people were located in Grantham.
*A four-year-old boy was the latest flood victim after he fell out of a boat during an attempt to rescue him and his family at Marburg.
*An elderly woman, a woman aged in her 30s, a boy, and a girl were found dead in Grantham. - Toowoomba Chronicle
*A 24-year-old man was sucked down a stormwater drain while checking his father's flooded home in the Brisbane suburb of Durack.
*Donna and Jordan Rice - http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2011/01/12/jordan-rice-death-flood-sacrifice-brother-save/
*Steve and Sandra Matthews - http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2011/01/12/flood-toowoomba-death-sandra-steve-matthews/
Steve Gray
The body of a man in his 50s has been found in floodwaters in Ipswich, the city's mayor says.
Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale told AAP the body was found in a car on Karrabin Road in the suburb of Wulkuraka on Wednesday.
"It appears the driver accidentally turned into floodwaters," Mr Pisasale said.
Police have yet to confirm the man's death.
The official death toll was lifted to 12 earlier on Wednesday.
JESSICA Lily-Ann Keep's beautiful big eyes and gorgeous smile will be forever etched in the hearts and minds of her family and friends.
Parents Matthew and Stacy Keep yesterday said a heartbreaking goodbye to their “little angel” who had given them so much pleasure in her short life.
Jessica, 23 months, was torn from her heavily pregnant mother's arms when a raging torrent of water tore through their Grantham home on January 10.
Mr and Mrs Keep also lost their mothers, Pauline Magner and Dawn Radke, in the horrific flash flood.
Mr Keep yesterday told a service of about 250 at St Mary's Catholic Church in Gatton: “Words cannot even begin to describe you Jess. We love you very much.”
The pair's three other young children, Alexandra, Madison and Jacob, comforted their parents with kisses and cuddles.
A moving slide-show of photographs capturing the close-knit family's fondest memories played as the songs, You are so beautiful, by Joe Cocker and All good things come to an end by Nelly Furtado played in the background.
Father John Conway told mourners the tragedy of losing three family members had “shattered their lives... turning it upside down in an instant”.
“Because of the love you share, your life will go on,” he said.
The Keep family sat less than a metre away from their youngest child as she lay in a beautifully decorated white coffin adorned with white lilies.
“Jessica will always be in our midst, so too your mothers. Now they are in peace,” Fr Conway said.
Mr Keep's mother, Mrs Magner, was farewelled in a funeral service in Gatton last Friday, while a remembrance service for Mrs Keep's mother Dawn Radke was held in conjunction with Jessica's funeral yesterday.
Mr Keep thanked his mother-in-law Dawn, whose body has not yet been found, for all her assistance.
Mr and Mrs Keep, along with some of their closest family members, carried their daughter to a waiting hearse outside the church as Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton echoed throughout the church.
Little Jessica, whose body was found 35km away from her home, was laid to rest in the Gatton Cemetery.
RURAL firefighter Danny McGuire yesterday had the heart-wrenching task of burying his family.
Mr McGuire, supported by his only surviving child, Zachary, 7, said a final farewell to his wife, eldest son and only daughter – all taken when a torrent of water ripped through their home town of Grantham.
Llync-Chiann Clark-Jibson, also a rural firefighter, son Garry Jibson, 12, and daughter Joscelyn, 5, died after Mr McGuire desperately tried to escape an eight-metre wall of water on the afternoon of January 10.
But the torrent of water engulfed the rural fire truck Mr McGuire and his family were in – he scrambled to safety pushing his son Zach up a tree and telling him to “hold on”.
The pair spent eight hours clinging to a tree while their upturned vehicle bobbed in the water below.
Yesterday mourners were led by a procession of rural fire trucks including a sentimental Holden ute with Llync's white coffin in its tray, closely followed by her two children, also in decorative white coffins, as they took their final journey.
The procession made its way through Gatton's main street to the Gatton Cemetery where the trio were received by a piper and a guard of honour made up of rural firefighters.
In an emotional graveside service, family and friends yesterday recalled the “fateful day” that took away their “angels”.
“They touched everyone's lives,” a family member told the hundreds of mourners which included family, friends, rural and urban firefighters, the children's school friends and childcare workers.
“Llync loved her family and was a great wife, and a very good mum.”
Llync first met her soulmate Danny at the Gold Coast when she began working for him in the fibreglass industry. She was just 16.
“Llync was a very hard worker, putting blokes to shame,” her family said.
Three-and-a-half years ago the family moved from the Gold Coast to Grantham. The shift was a struggle for Llync, who loved to shop. But the move was made a little easier with their children thriving on the region's rural landscape.
“Garry was very much an outdoors boy. He loved being outside with his brother and sister, their dogs and pushbikes, especially when there was no petrol for the motorbikes,” the family said.
“Jocelyn was very much a dad's girl and really loved riding her quad bike that she received for Christmas. She especially loved competing against her brothers.”
Tears flowed as a dozen balloons were released by childcare workers who had the “pleasure” of knowing the children, while family and friends placed masses of flowers on their coffins in a final farewell.
During the service mourners were asked to not only grieve the loss of Mrs Gurr, 88, but also the numerous other people who perished during the ``tragic'' disaster and for the countless family and friends who mourn their deaths.
During a moving eulogy, delivered by the funeral celebrant on behalf of Mrs Gurr's children Andrew and Judith, Mrs Gurr was described as a ``strong woman, stubborn, gentle but direct and even had a sense of humour.''
After the funeral, Andrew Gurr said it was of considerable comfort to the family it was unlikely his mother was aware of wall of water as it engulfed her home and that she would have passed away ``relatively peacefully.''
``Even in this significant tragedy it gives (us) great (comfort),'' he said.
**Below is my photo tribute to those lost. To include someone in this tribute or to request someone is removed, e mail me - nicole@australianmissingpersonsregister.com
Photo tributes to those lost
Jean Gurr Jessica Keep Joshua Ross
Steve and Sandra Matthews
Sylvia Baillie
DECEASED: (Top, from left) Sandy Matthews, 46, Steve Matthews, 56, Donna Rice, 43, (middle, from left) Jesse, 4, Jocelyn McGuire, 5, Jordan Rice, 13, Garry McGuire, 12, (bottom, from left) Selwyn Schefe, 52, Llync-Chiann Clarke, 31, Pauline Magna, 65, Bruce Marshall, 66. NOT PICTURED: Jean Gurr, 88, Robert Kelly, 30, Van Toan Giang, 24, unknown man, unknown woman. MISSING: (Top, from left) Sylvia Baillie, 72, Brenda Ross, 56, (middle, from left) James Perry, 40, Josh Ross, 25, Dawn Radke, 56, (bottom, from left) Bruce Warhurst, 60, Jessica Keep, 23 months, Chris Face, 63. NOT PICTURED: Regina Vanderwerf, 82, Willo Walker, Adam O’Connor, two women unknown, unnamed girl, 6. Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
