{"id":8436,"date":"2023-12-13T18:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T07:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2023-12-19T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:41:06","slug":"leigh-tyler-passed-away-27-march-2023-aged-84-85-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/leigh-tyler-passed-away-27-march-2023-aged-84-85-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Tyler &#8211; Passed Away 27 March 2023 &#8211; Aged 84\/85 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/leigh-tyler-passed-away-27-march-2023-aged-84-85-years\/leigh-circa-1990\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8440\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8440\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/leigh-tyler-passed-away-27-march-2023-aged-84-85-years\/leigh-circa-1990\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leigh-Circa-1990.jpg?fit=424%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"424,640\" 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=\"Leigh Circa 1990\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leigh-Circa-1990.jpg?fit=424%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8440 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leigh-Circa-1990.jpg?resize=424%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leigh-Circa-1990.jpg?w=424&amp;ssl=1 424w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leigh-Circa-1990.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tony Farrugia has received advice from Leigh Tyler\u2019s wife, Beryl, that Leigh had passed away on 27 March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh had not been well for a few years and was being cared in a nursing home. He passed away after a short illness in Bankstown Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Tony believes that Leigh worked in Engineering Branch transitioning to Operations before joining R&amp;D. In a Transit magazine Leigh was listed as OTC\u2019s R&amp;D Business Manager in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Tony had worked with Leigh for a few years, and he was a wonderful person to know and work with. May he RIP.<\/p>\n<p>If you knew Leigh and would like to pass a Tribute on to the family via the OTVA web site or via private email please send the tribute to me and I will pass it on through Tony.<\/p>\n<p>May He Rest In Peace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/leigh-tyler-passed-away-27-march-2023-aged-84-85-years\/leigh\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8437\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8437\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/leigh-tyler-passed-away-27-march-2023-aged-84-85-years\/leigh\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leigh.jpg?fit=120%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,181\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Peter Bull&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1702491526&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=\"Leigh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leigh.jpg?fit=120%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8437 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leigh.jpg?resize=120%2C181&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tony Farrugia has received advice from Leigh Tyler\u2019s wife, Beryl, that Leigh had passed away on 27 March 2023. Leigh had not been well for a few years and was being cared in a nursing home. He passed away after a short illness in Bankstown Hospital. Tony believes that Leigh worked in Engineering Branch [&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-8436","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-2c4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436","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=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8442,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}