{"id":6905,"date":"2019-05-20T18:21:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2019-05-28T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T20:54:11","slug":"ray-hookway-passes-away-saturday-18-may-2019-aged-91-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/ray-hookway-passes-away-saturday-18-may-2019-aged-91-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Hookway – Passes Away Saturday 18 May 2019 – Aged 89 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ray was born 24th November 1929.\u00a0 He was 89 years and six months when he passed.<\/p>\n

The stories that some of the OTC Vets have provided that were passed on to Fazeley, Ray\u2019s partner, and Janelle, Fazeley\u2019s nice, were apparently greatly enjoyed by Ray in his last days. The family thanks you for making his last hours so memorable for all concerned.<\/p>\n

Ray\u2019s funeral service will be held at 2:30pm on Wednesday 22nd May<\/p>\n

Camelia Chapel<\/p>\n

Macquarie Park Crematorium<\/p>\n

(Cnr Plassey & Delhi Rds)<\/p>\n

Macquarie Park NSW 2113<\/p>\n

An afternoon tea will be held on site after the funeral service to celebrate Ray\u2019s life. There will be an “open mic” at afternoon tea for anyone who wants to share a word or two.<\/p>\n

The below was found in the August 1994 Transit on the occasion of Ray Hookway’s Retirement<\/p>\n

After almost fifty year’s in the international telecommunications business, MS&RS Technical Services Manager,
\nRay Hookway, decided it was time for a change. This month he starts a new, full-time career – fishing, cross-country skiing and bush walking!<\/p>\n

Ray started his career in 1945 when, at the age of 17, he worked as a telegram\u00a0 messenger for AWA (Amalgamated
\nWireless Australasia). Two years later saw the beginning of OTC’s operations (through the merger of AWA, the Coastal Radio Service and the Australian arm of Cable & Wireless), and Ray became a Circulation Clerk in Sydney’s city district.<\/p>\n

He subsequently went ‘semi-rural’, moving to the Pennant Hills radio station workshop to assist in the manufacture of transmitters and ancillary equipment for the new Doonside and Bringelly stations. The workshop was transferred to Marrickville in 1953, prior to the Pennant Hills radio station’s relocation to Doonside.<\/p>\n

Ray stayed at”, the Marrickville Workshop until 1958, when he was promoted to Technical Assistant in the Operations Group. Since then he has held positions of Technical Officer and Manager Doonside, before taking up his Current role as Manager Technical Services for Mobile Satellite & Radio Services (fOlwerly ‘Maritime’).<\/p>\n

Tremendous changes have taken place in the communications industry over the past 50 years, and Ray said there have been many memorable moments. ‘Helping to commission the Seacom cable to South-East Asia was interesting’, he recalled, ‘as was working on the modernisation of radio stations such as La Perouse (NSW) and Rockbank (Victoria) – and maintenance of the OTC Cable System.<\/p>\n

‘When I look back over the year’s, I feel a great deal of satisfaction knowing that – in some small way – I have made a
\ncontribution to modem-day communications.’<\/p>\n

Daryll Smith, General Manager of Telstra Mobile Satellite & Radio Services, paid tribute to Ray’s career and said he came from an environment of submarine telegraph cables and Beam Wireless building blocks for today’s ‘information super highways’.<\/p>\n

Like his peers, Ray was a pioneer for many of us’, said Daryll, ‘and we that follow him salute his efforts’.<\/p>\n

Ray will continue to ‘dabble’ in communications during retirement; he plans to expand his amateur radio facilities and, in so doing, keep in touch with old friends.\u00a0In the short-term, however, he intends to do a lot of leisurely travelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ray was born 24th November 1929.\u00a0 He was 89 years and six months when he passed. The stories that some of the OTC Vets have provided that were passed on to Fazeley, Ray\u2019s partner, and Janelle, Fazeley\u2019s nice, were apparently greatly enjoyed by Ray in his last days. The family thanks you for making his […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6905","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-1Nn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905","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=6905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6912,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}