{"id":6015,"date":"2017-06-21T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T23:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2017-06-22T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T23:43:12","slug":"bernie-white-passed-away-monday-19-june-2017-aged-93-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/bernie-white-passed-away-monday-19-june-2017-aged-93-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie White &#8211; Passed Away Monday 19 June 2017 &#8211; Aged 93 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Members of the OTVA<\/p>\n<p>Bernie and his wife, Evelyn, have been living with their son, Laurie and his wife, Noelene, for some time now but had relocated to a nursing home prior to his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie has been a great contributor to and supporter of the OTVA for many years and will be well known to many of you.\u00a0 He was a Life Member of the OTVA and an active member of the OTVA Executive for many years until 3 years ago when he started to experience some health &amp; well-being issues.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie\u2019s Working Life<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joined AWA in 1938 as a messenger at 14 years of age and gained experience as a telegraphist until he was appointed as a Ships Radio Officer in 1949.<\/li>\n<li>Joined OTC in 1957 as a \u201cIsland Room Operator\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Seconded to Papua New Guinea Telegraph from 1960 to 1964 as the Radio Officer In Charge<\/li>\n<li>Returned to OTC as a Radio Officer, CRS in 1966 where he worked in Sydney Radio and Darwin Radio<\/li>\n<li>Appointed in 1967 to the position of Pay Clerk &amp; Administration Officer in Operations Branch until his resignation from OTC in 1976 to take charge of his own accountancy business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Funeral Service:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1:30pm<\/p>\n<p>Monday 26 June 2017<\/p>\n<p>United Church, \u00a070 Kitchener Pd, Bankstown NSW<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Members of the OTVA Bernie and his wife, Evelyn, have been living with their son, Laurie and his wife, Noelene, for some time now but had relocated to a nursing home prior to his passing. Bernie has been a great contributor to and supporter of the OTVA for many years and will be well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6017,"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-6015","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\/06\/Bernie-White-1973.jpg?fit=305%2C326&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMOfU-1z1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","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=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}