Joe Collister’s son, Darryl, has advised that Joe passed away on 18 June 2025 aged 99 years.
Joe’s family is holding a memorial service on Monday 30th June at 12:15pm. No flowers please
WHERE: Rose Chapel, Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium, Cnr Plessey Rd and Entrance Dr North Ryde NSW 2113
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The below photo is from a celebration at Bringelly and features Joe third from the left – he was only a little fella! It may have been Harry Stone’s farewell.
Those in the photo are (from left to right): Trevor Thatcher, Keith Vincent, Joe Collister, Harry Stone, Orm Cooper, John Walker
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I am sure that every trainee technician would have known Joe and respected him. He was a real gentleman.
I liked Joe and got on with him fairly well. I am surprised he never had my traineeship yanked from under me as I was a bit of a problem child (I started with OTC on my 17th birthday).
Both he and Ray Baty claimed that I was their favourite trainee!
I think they lied.
Cheers, Ron Beckett
I recall being told that the Field Training Managers would only know our names if we were very very good or very very bad. That saying may have come from Joe.
He had a wicked sense of humour.
I liked him very much.
Wow, I’m sure for many of us ‘younger folk’, Joe Collister played a large part in our early careers.
Joe was the classic ‘hard but fair’ and we knew if he was heading out to our cohort at Nth Sydney TAFE, that something had upset him and he laid down the law. There was no ambiguity in his message.
In years thereafter when knowing Joe outside our Training days, he was certainly a gentleman and very caring at heart.
I would expect there are many stories from OTVA younger members about Joe
Rgds,
Neville Hainke