Also the Funeral Service for Maisie VAHTRICK, wife of the late Cyril took place on Monday 9 October 2017 at Magnolia Chapel, Macquarie Park.

Tom Barker, Zenon Kochman and Chris Von Willer attended the service.

May She Rest In Peace

The wife of the late “Shelley” (Shelton) de Silva, (once a clerk in the OTC Supply Branch), is mentioned in Sydney Morning Herald Death/Funeral Notices dated 10 October 2017.

She was in the family home at Hunters Hill up to her passing.

Hi Peter

Just been advised that Jack passed away back in September at Tweed Heads aged 88.  He was a Senior Telegraphist ex-SOR who took the redundancy back in the 80s and went North.  Back in February this year my emails bounced back and I got Ray Horeau to check, as I knew they played a lot of golf together.  Ray sent this pix to me too of Jack who was by then in a nursing home.

The funeral service was held on the 18th September at Tweed Heads so the news was a bit slow coming

May He Rest In Peace

Ray Horeau & Jack Bowes in the nursing home.

Thanks to Glenn McMullen for sharing photos that he took on a recent road trip.

You can still see a faint OTC presence on the tower in these pictures.

The following photos are courtesy of Ron Beckett

Peter Dee passed on the sad news of George’s passing on or about Wednesday 16th August 2017 after losing his battle against several illnesses over recent years.

The details of a Funeral Service will be held for George are as follows:

WHEN:               2:00pm Thursday 24th August 2017

WHERE:            South Chapel, Northern Suburbs Crematorium

199 Delhi Road, North Ryde NSW

In lieu of floral tributes, people are asked to consider a donation to the Cancer Council, Kidney Health Australia or

any cat-related charity (my parents have been cat breeders and cat lovers for over 40 years).

It is with great sadness that I pass on news from Barry Stockbridge that Noel passed away today.

Noel was a big man and he had been suffering from dementia for at least the last 12 months. His wife,  Marion, had been unable to look after him so he moved to a Nursing Home in Old Bar near Taree in NSW and it was from there that he passed away this morning.

Details of the funeral service for Noel will be passed on when they are made known to us.

May He Rest In Peace.

From Laurie McIllree:

Attached are a few photos of OTC, and also a shot of Tumon Bay, now loaded with hotels and strip malls. We sure lived there at a good time.

A friend of mine who lived on Guam and was known by a lot of OTC folk visited there last week (circa 1/8/17) and sent photos of the station and the area where the houses once stood. All of the houses are gone and now overgrown by vegetation.

These photos may be of interest to past folk who worked at the station.

Cheers

From Bruce Boardman:

Hi, Thanks for Laurie’s pics of Guam. We were so taken with the place that Liz & I + Ben McGee and Janine, went back there Nov 2009.

We called at the cable station which is now owned by AT&T, and as expected they wouldn’t let us go inside for security reasons. However they didn’t care if we looked at the houses. They had erected a cyclone wire fence along the road but gave us the key to a gate. The houses were still there but obscured by the jungle, and I suspect they are still there.

Attached are my photos (I have lots). It was sad to see the state of the houses which were once so good. We lived in number 105 directly in front of the cable station and the house pics are of our house. I cant understand why the US air force never used these homes as I believe they were on their land. There was a terrific view over Tumon bay from the back verandah.

Bruce