With that place in our history, Stewart will be fondly remembered.

Stewart passed away aged 95 on September 7, after an interesting, varied and never dull life.

Born in Armadale, Melbourne in 1925, he joined The Argus newspaper after he left school.

One fateful call when he turned 18 saw him join the RAAF, where he became a wireless operator and air gunner.

He visited numerous places throughout his military training, right across Australia: Sydney, Parkes, Ballerat, East Gippsland.

His war time experiences saw him posted to the Operational Training Unit at East Sale and eventually to 7 Squadron, flying Australian build Beaufort light bombers.

He and his unit were posted to places such as a remote place halfway between Wewak and Jayapura on the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesian, border.

After numerous trials and tribulations in the war, he met his new wife, a Kiwi millinery student, and set off to work at another newspaper in New Zealand.

He and Eunice married in 1954 and returned to Australia where he took up a position at the Northern Daily Leader.

Two of the couple's children were born in Palmerston North and another two in Tamworth - and had numerous grandchildren.

Following the sale of the Tamworth newspaper to the Murdoch organisation in the middle of 1970's, Stewart's career took another new course.

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He decided to pursue a life in the church of England in Australia, something he had considered taking up during the years after WWII.

Stewart's theological training began in Brisbane, followed by a spell in Surat on the Balonne River, in Queensland.

He then became the Myrtleford priest until his first try at retirement at the end of June 1990.

In May of that year Stewart and Eunice moved to Stanley where his retirement was set aside.

He was roped in to becoming Associate Priest at St Matthew's Anglican church in Albury. He continued there until his second try at retirement in July 1990.