{"id":4755,"date":"2016-05-23T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T03:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2016-05-23T14:09:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T03:09:23","slug":"passing-of-william-a-a-brown-aged-93-years-seniority-16-oct-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/passing-of-william-a-a-brown-aged-93-years-seniority-16-oct-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of William A A Brown &#8211; Aged 93 Years &#8211; Seniority 16 Oct 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Brown\u2019s son, Gerry, has advised of Bill\u2019s passing on 13 May 2016. If you have any photos or words of Tribute to Bill that you would like to share with others via the OTVA web site, please send them to me for review and possible upload to the web site.\u00a0\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/passing-of-william-a-a-brown-aged-93-years-seniority-16-oct-1951\/william-a-a-brown\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-A-A-Brown.jpg?fit=469%2C326&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"469,326\" 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=\"William A A Brown\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-A-A-Brown.jpg?fit=469%2C326&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4757\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-A-A-Brown.jpg?resize=469%2C326\" alt=\"William A A Brown\" width=\"469\" height=\"326\" \/><\/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><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">I have only one William Brown on the books of the OTVA and could only find one Bill Brown and William Brown both of whom retired as CRS Supervisor (CRS 2) so I can only assume that he was the one and only.<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Bill Brown started with OTC on 9 April 1951 and retired in October 1985.<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">From April 1979 Transit:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/passing-of-william-a-a-brown-aged-93-years-seniority-16-oct-1951\/bill-brown-crs-supervisor-sydney-radio\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4759\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4759\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/passing-of-william-a-a-brown-aged-93-years-seniority-16-oct-1951\/bill-brown-crs-supervisor-sydney-radio\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bill-Brown-CRS-Supervisor-Sydney-Radio.jpg?fit=699%2C897&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"699,897\" 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=\"Bill Brown CRS Supervisor Sydney Radio\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bill-Brown-CRS-Supervisor-Sydney-Radio.jpg?fit=699%2C897&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4759\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bill-Brown-CRS-Supervisor-Sydney-Radio.jpg?resize=699%2C897\" alt=\"Bill Brown CRS Supervisor Sydney Radio\" width=\"699\" height=\"897\" \/><\/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>&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>&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>May He Rest In Peace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/passing-of-william-a-a-brown-aged-93-years-seniority-16-oct-1951\/bill-brown-crs-supervisor-sydney-radio\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4759\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Brown\u2019s son, Gerry, has advised of Bill\u2019s passing on 13 May 2016. If you have any photos or words of Tribute to Bill that you would like to share with others via the OTVA web site, please send them to me for review and possible upload to the web site.\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&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-4755","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-1eH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","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=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}