Qld: Memorial to martyred missionary

AAP General News (Australia)
01-21-2001
Qld: Memorial to martyred missionary

The home town of a Queensland missionary who was killed with his sons in India two
years ago has unveiled a memorial to them.

GRAHAM STAINES, 58, and sons PHILIP, 10, and TIMOTHY, 6, were burned to death by a
Hindu mob in the eastern Indian state of Orissa on January 23, 1999.

Beaudesert Shire Council has unveiled a stone memorial and plaque to the three in a
public ceremony at Jubilee Park, Beaudesert, south-west of Brisbane.

Mr STAINES' brother JOHN says the death of …