Fr Bill Mills 60th Celebration …
Fr Bill Mills former student at St John’s School Mullumbimby & former Priest of Murwillumbah Parish:
Fr William Bede Mills was born at Roma Private Hospital, Murwillumbah on September 9, 1929 and baptised in the original Sacred Heart Church.
Mullumbimby School Days: For me, memories of school days at St John’s Mullumbimby are vivid and varied. School, Church and Family worked in close relationship in my education and spiritual formation which spanned over a period of twenty-one years. This began with my year in Kindergarten in 1935 in a classroom separated from the sanctuary in the Old Church, by a curtain; right through to the end of seminary days in 1956 when I was ordained. My secondary schooling was in St Columba’s College, Springwood a junior seminary for the education of future priests.