Unfortunately Les passed away just after 6:00am on Saturday 4 January 2020 losing his fight against cancer.<\/p>\n
His daughter, Cathy, has advised that there will be a gathering of Les\u2019 friends at the \u201cBondi Icebergs\u201d club in Nots Avenue, Bondi, on Thursday 16th<\/sup> January at 11:15am.<\/p>\n Details to be published in the Daily Telegraph on Friday 10th<\/sup> January 2020.<\/p>\n May He Rest In Peace<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cathy Ayers, Les\u2019 daughter, advised his long-term friend and colleague from his OTC years, John Smith, in mid-December 2019 that due to his worsening medical condition Les had been placed in Edina Age Care Hospital, Waverley. Les had been undergoing extensive chemo and radiation treatment for several months but unfortunately he had not responded positively to the treatment and was not\u00a0expected to recover.<\/p>\n Les has been an active member of the OTC Vets for many years and has in recent years provided many stories for inclusion in the OTVA Newsletter which had added to the reading enjoyment of many of its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unfortunately Les passed away just after 6:00am on Saturday 4 January 2020 losing his fight against cancer. His daughter, Cathy, has advised that there will be a gathering of Les\u2019 friends at the \u201cBondi Icebergs\u201d club in Nots Avenue, Bondi, on Thursday 16th January at 11:15am. Details to be published in the Daily Telegraph on […]<\/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-7133","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-1R3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133","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=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7136,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}