{"id":605,"date":"2011-10-21T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T22:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2014-11-07T09:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:14:54","slug":"paul-kerkin-passed-away-20-october-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/paul-kerkin-passed-away-20-october-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kerkin &#8211; Passed Away 20 October 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ANZCAN-A-Closure-Ceremony-Mid-2002.jpg\"><\/a>Fellows,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0It\u2019s we deep regret that I have to inform you of the passing of Paul Kerkin this morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_659\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ANZCAN-A-Closure-Ceremony-Mid-20021.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-659\" class=\"size-full wp-image-659\" title=\"ANZCAN A Closure Ceremony Mid 2002\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ANZCAN-A-Closure-Ceremony-Mid-20021.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L \u2013 R Laurie McIllree, Geoff Parr, Phil Murphy, Ron Becket, Ken Arnold, Eric Fielding-Smith, Phil Wall, Paul Kerkin, John Bracks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Paul joined OTC in approximately 1974 and retired from Reach in mid 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Paul had a melanoma removed several years ago and was given a clean bill of health but a medical check undertaken approximately six weeks ago showed that the cancer had returned. It was obviously a very aggressive cancer that must have spread very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This information has been provided by Ken Arnold who still works at the Paddington terminal and knew Paul very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I will update this blog\u00a0once I have details of the funeral arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellows, \u00a0It\u2019s we deep regret that I have to inform you of the passing of Paul Kerkin this morning. \u00a0Paul joined OTC in approximately 1974 and retired from Reach in mid 2011. \u00a0Paul had a melanoma removed several years ago and was given a clean bill of health but a medical check undertaken approximately six [&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-605","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-9L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}