Stanley
Arthur
Thiess
OBE
Born in Drayton, Queensland, Australia
Ancestors 
Son of Heinrich Thiess
and Marie Paulina (Rutsch) Thiess
Brother of
Peter Philipp Thiess, Heinrich Justus Thiess, Friedrich Christian Thiess, Elizabeth Mary Thiess, Johannes Rudolph Thiess, Leslie Charles Thiess CMG, Cecil Robert Thiess OBE, Alfred Edward Thiess, Albert James Thiess CBE AO and Mabel Ester Thiess
Husband of
Edna May (Johnstone) Thiess
— married
3 Sep 1938 in Queensland, Australia
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 64
in Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Mar 2020
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Biography
Stanley Arthur Thiess OBE was born on 13th October 1916 at Drayton, Queensland, Australia. He was the ninth and youngest son of Henry Thiess and Mary Rutsch.[1]
Together with Cecil, Bert, and Pat, Stan joined their brother, Leslie in a sizeable road-building contract in 1933. In 1939 the firm became Thiess Bros, and was incorporated as a proprietary company in 1946; eventually growing into a group of thirty or more interlocked enterprises.[2]
He married Edna Johnstone on 3rd September 1938 at Queensland.[3]
After the Second World War, Stan relocated to New South Wales , where he established and managed the New South Wales projects for Thiess.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1968 for 'services to civil engineering'.[4]
He passed away in 1981 at Caringbah, New South Wales.[5]
Sources
- ↑ Queensland Birth Index #C14718/1916
- ↑ Bell, Peter. 'Thiess, Sir Leslie Charles (Les) (1909–1992)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published online 2016; accessed online 23 Mar 2020
- ↑ Queensland Marriage Index #C3689/1938
- ↑ Australian Honours; OBE; accessed 23 Mar 2020
- ↑ New South Wales Death Index #21240/1981
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