{"id":13040,"date":"2026-02-14T18:07:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=13040"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:36:04","slug":"martin-beck-passed-away-25-9-2012-aged-77-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/martin-beck-passed-away-25-9-2012-aged-77-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Beck &#8211; Passed Away 25\/9\/2012 &#8211; Aged 77 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MARTIN BECK Obituary<\/h1>\n<p>Published by Coffs Coast Advocate on Sep. 26, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>BECK, MARTIN WILFRED<br \/>\n25th September, 2012, peacefully at own home, late of Sandy Beach. Dearly beloved husband of Dorothy, loving father &amp; father-in-law of Mark (dec&#8217;d), Carol &amp; John Elliott, adored grandfather of Tegen and James.<br \/>\nAged 77 Years<br \/>\n&#8220;Martin&#8217;s Last Flight&#8221;<br \/>\nRelatives and friends were invited to attend Martin&#8217;s Funeral held in the Chapel of Hogbin Drive Crematorium &amp; Memorial Gardens, Stadium Drive, Coffs Harbour on Friday, 28th September, 2012 at 3.00p.m.<br \/>\nFriends were invited to join the family in the Garden Lounge for light refreshments following the Service.<br \/>\nIn lieu of floral tributes the family asked for donations to the Oncology Unit at Coffs Harbour Health Campus, a collection box was at the Chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Ref:-https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/legacyremembers\/martin-beck-obituary?id=46116496<\/p>\n<p>For context on the photo below see the comment from Gary Samuels (below)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/martin-beck-passed-away-25-9-2012-aged-77-years\/martin-andmembers-of-coffs-harbour-flight-club\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13100\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13100\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/martin-beck-passed-away-25-9-2012-aged-77-years\/martin-andmembers-of-coffs-harbour-flight-club\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1593&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1593\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Martin andMembers of Coffs Harbour Flight Club\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club-scaled.jpg?fit=720%2C448&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-13100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club.jpg?resize=720%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C637&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C478&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C956&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1274&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club-scaled.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-andMembers-of-Coffs-Harbour-Flight-Club-scaled.jpg?w=2160&amp;ssl=1 2160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN BECK Obituary Published by Coffs Coast Advocate on Sep. 26, 2012. BECK, MARTIN WILFRED 25th September, 2012, peacefully at own home, late of Sandy Beach. Dearly beloved husband of Dorothy, loving father &amp; father-in-law of Mark (dec&#8217;d), Carol &amp; John Elliott, adored grandfather of Tegen and James. Aged 77 Years &#8220;Martin&#8217;s Last Flight&#8221; Relatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMOfU-3ok","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13102,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions\/13102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}