Phil Hiscox has provided us this morning with the sad news of the passing of another of our OTC fraternity.
I worked with Neil at Paddington in the mid-1980s till when I left OTC to join Optus in 1992.
Neil worked in the INMC on Level 7 at Paddington in those years but had worked in many areas in OTC throughout his career.
He was a gentle man who was well liked and respected by all who knew him.
May He Rest in Peace
Peter Tuckwell has advised of the passing of yet another of our fraternity that has been taken from us at the relatively early age of 62.
Sadly, Kim passed away last night by his bed. Peter was contacted by Mark Hopkins, Kim’s brother. Kim had been living on his brother’s farm at Candelo on the south coast of NSW for the past few years. Kim had diabetes and his brother thinks this may have been a contributing factor.
The Funeral Service will probably be held in Sydney but the details are not yet known. Once Mark provides the details they will be communicated to you all.
Malcolm Irvine was an OTC trainee/ technician in the early eighties. Peter Szewczyk thinks that once Mal finished his traineeship he left OTC. Mal was part of the mass intake of trainees between 1979 and 1981. This is confirmed by his LinkedIn profile details.
Sadly Mal’s 57th birthday was last Thursday.
He passed away in Royal North Shore Hospital in the early hours of Monday 16th October after a 12 month battle with brain cancer.
He has been living with his wife Jenny and his 2 sons Kent (22) and Gerard (19) at West Ryde in Sydney.
The Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday 24th October 2017 at 10:30am at St Joseph’s School Chapel at Hunters Hill. If plan to attend Mal’s funeral service please be early to get parking.
May He Rest In Peace
Brian’s daughter, Sarah, has passed on the sad news that Brian Brennan, who worked as a computer programmer at OTC at both the Broadway and Paddington terminals from 1971 until it merged with Telecom into AOTC in 1992, died early last week.
The funeral is arranged for the Wednesday the 18th of October at Guardian Funeral Chapel (Cnr of Sunnyholt Rd and First Avenue) at 10:30 am.
In preparing for the funeral Sarah found this photo which she thought might appreciate to identify Brian and use in this email. It was taken at the Official Closing of the MRSC at Paddington in May 1988. Brian is in the ‘man in the middle’. with John Wall (Interplex Operator) on the right hand side of the picture.
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.
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.
Ted Bastow has advised us of the passing of Doreen Hansen, widow of Tony Hansen, who passed away at her nursing home in WA last Friday.
No further details are available at this time.
Doreen accompanied Tony to various outstations for OTC and she also worked in HO as a Tea Lady for a while in the 1970’s.
Ted and his wife met Doreen for the first time in Port Moresby and became lifetime friends from then on.
May She Rest In Peace
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