Vale Cecil ‘Snowy’ Morgan
Cecil ‘Snowy’ Morgan’s service will be held on Friday 16 July 2021 from 2pm at Phillip Stephens Chapel, 28 Riawena Road, Rosny TAS. The service will also be live-streamed at Beltana Bowls Club and the bar will open at 1pm.
Beltana Bowls Club has lost a stalwart of the club and a wonderful man who was loved by all. Snow passed away on 6 July 2021 at the incredible age of 102. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Beltana Bowls Club extends its deepest condolences to all his family.
Snowy was a regular face at the end of the bar on a Friday night, among many other times he visited the club. He was pivotal in the 50th birthday celebrations for the club and attended the official opening of anniversary weekend. Snowy, along with former Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner, AC, Governor of Tasmania put the first bowls down for the start of the weekend celebrations. Read more and view more photos of Snow at the 50th birthday celebrations here. He also featured in a story in the Eastern Shore Sun.
In May 1970, the tender of Snow Morgan for the Beltana clubhouse construction was accepted. Snow celebrated his 100th birthday at the club in 2019. What a fantastic moment – to celebrate his birthday in the club he constructed.
Snowy’s family has shared some highlights with the club. Enjoy reading what they have lovingly provided us with.
Cecil “Snowy” Morgan (1919-2021) was born at Bushy Park, the second of eight children. Leaving school at 12, he started work as a farm labourer, before moving to New Norfolk where he became a carpenter’s labourer in 1938.
He enlisted in April 1941, was attached to the 2/23rd Battalion / Ninth Division and saw service in Palestine, New Guinea, and Tarakan in Borneo. He returned to Australia in December 1946, was demobbed, and started training as a carpenter.
At a badminton club, Snow met Oatlands girl Pauline Emery and they were married in 1949. Snow and Pauline shared a strong and happy marriage of 60 years, until Pauline’s death in 2009. They built their first house in Rose Bay and added six children to the family between 1950 and 1962.
Snow loved sport and company. An active member of Clarence Football and Beltana Bowls Clubs, he served at both as Vice-President and was given Life Membership. He was also a life member at Lindisfarne RSL and Lindisfarne Masonic Lodge.
Snow was ever the optimist, a glass half-full man, always looking forward. His longevity can be attributed to a happy and loving family, personal resilience, an abundance of practical common sense, an inquiring mind, and a wide circle of friends. He was a well-balanced man – deftly combining his lifelong commitments to family and friends, work and play, home and community and, for 4 years, his country. He gave his all and everyone got a fair go.
He knew how to enjoy life and he shared that enjoyment with all who knew him. To give him the ultimate Australian accolade, he was a good bloke. In his own vernacular, you would say he was a tremendous chap.
