{"id":4179,"date":"2015-06-24T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T02:07:56","slug":"vale-john-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/vale-john-norris\/","title":{"rendered":"VALE &#8211; John Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Chambers has advised that John Norris passed away a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p>John was a Melbourne man who will be well remembered by all those who went to Wagga on the Australia Day Weekend for all those years to play cricket. \u00a0He was a very good cricketer with both bat and ball and a real gentleman on the field.<\/p>\n<p>John retired on Tuesday 20 March 1984 to the Gold Coast with his wife Mildred after 38 years with OTC. John did not keep in touch with the vets or many of the ex OTC people.<\/p>\n<p>The sad news was passed on by Keith McCredden<\/p>\n<p>The below photo is from Transit after a Caboolture Day in 1986.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/vale-john-norris\/caboolture-day-1986\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4183\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4183\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/vale-john-norris\/caboolture-day-1986\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Caboolture-Day-1986.jpg?fit=420%2C293&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"420,293\" 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=\"Caboolture Day 1986\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Caboolture-Day-1986.jpg?fit=420%2C293&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Caboolture-Day-1986.jpg?resize=420%2C293\" alt=\"Caboolture Day 1986\" width=\"420\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4187\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/vale-john-norris\/retirement-notice-in-transit\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Retirement-Notice-in-Transit.jpg?fit=666%2C388&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"666,388\" 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=\"Retirement Notice in Transit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Retirement-Notice-in-Transit.jpg?fit=666%2C388&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4187\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Retirement-Notice-in-Transit.jpg?resize=666%2C388\" alt=\"Retirement Notice in Transit\" width=\"666\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/vale-john-norris\/transit-jun-1981\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4189\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4189\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/vale-john-norris\/transit-jun-1981\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Transit-Jun-1981.jpg?fit=657%2C851&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"657,851\" 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=\"Transit Jun 1981\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Transit-Jun-1981.jpg?fit=657%2C851&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4189\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Transit-Jun-1981.jpg?resize=657%2C851\" alt=\"Transit Jun 1981\" width=\"657\" height=\"851\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Chambers has advised that John Norris passed away a couple of months ago. John was a Melbourne man who will be well remembered by all those who went to Wagga on the Australia Day Weekend for all those years to play cricket. \u00a0He was a very good cricketer with both bat and ball and [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","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-15p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","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=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}