{"id":5651,"date":"2017-02-06T08:04:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2017-02-06T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T21:04:46","slug":"alex-griffiths-passed-away-1-february-2017-aged-90-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/alex-griffiths-passed-away-1-february-2017-aged-90-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Griffiths &#8211; Passed Away 1 February 2017 &#8211; Aged 90 Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex had a Seniority date of 17.2.1943 so that may make him about 92 years of age at his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Alex\u2019s daughter, Christine Murdoch, advised Keith McCredden of Alex\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n<p>No other details are known at this time but I will update you on funeral service details when they become known or you can check for yourself by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardianfunerals.com.au\/services\/upcoming-funeral-services\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Griffiths transferred to OTC from A.W.A. as Telegraphist, studied in the Cable School and then served at Cottesloe from 1954 to 1957 when he returned to Sydney for a refresher course. Alex went to Suva later that year.<\/p>\n<p>Alex worked on the Apollo-Soyuz launch for OTC at Doonside in 1975<\/p>\n<p>May He Rest In Peace<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/alex-griffiths-passed-away-1-february-2017-aged-90-something\/alex-apollo-soyuz-1975\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5653\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5653\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/alex-griffiths-passed-away-1-february-2017-aged-90-something\/alex-apollo-soyuz-1975\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alex-APOLLO-SOYUZ-1975.jpg?fit=630%2C833&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"630,833\" 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=\"Alex APOLLO-SOYUZ 1975\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alex-APOLLO-SOYUZ-1975.jpg?fit=630%2C833&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5653\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alex-APOLLO-SOYUZ-1975.jpg?resize=630%2C833\" alt=\"Alex APOLLO-SOYUZ 1975\" width=\"630\" height=\"833\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex had a Seniority date of 17.2.1943 so that may make him about 92 years of age at his passing. Alex\u2019s daughter, Christine Murdoch, advised Keith McCredden of Alex\u2019s passing. No other details are known at this time but I will update you on funeral service details when they become known or you can check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5655,"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-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Alex-1975.jpg?fit=284%2C285&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMOfU-1t9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","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=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}