{"id":8456,"date":"2024-02-07T14:14:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T03:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2024-02-21T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T21:19:32","slug":"charlie-micallef-passed-away-7-2-24-aged-84-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/charlie-micallef-passed-away-7-2-24-aged-84-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Micallef &#8211; Passed Away 7\/2\/24 &#8211; Aged 84 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to report to you that our \u00a0Colleague\u00a0 Charlie Micallef passed away at 5am this morning 7.2.2024.<\/p>\n<p>He was very peaceful. Charlie was 84 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie worked in Melbourne Operating Room (MOR).\u00a0Charlie commenced at OTC (A) \u00a0Queen Street Melbourne in December 1957 in MOR moving through the ranks over the years resigning in 1985 as SITO\/Facsimile Operator at Lonsdale Street Melbourne. Charlie\u2019s father Joe also worked OTC as a Storeman\u00a0from \u00a01957-1967.\u00a0 Charlie was a former Past President of OTVA Melbourne in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie worked at Armaguard for 46 years retiring in 2015. Charlie and his wife Josie in retirement travelled extensively around the world taking many photos which Charlie shared on Facebook.\u00a0 Charlie\u2019s wife Josie also worked at OTC\u00a0 in Phonograms for a few years.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year\u00a0Charlie was diagnosed with a tumour in\u00a0 his pancreas.<\/p>\n<p>Our sincere sympathy and condolences to Josie and Loving Family\u00a0and Friends of Charlie on a Life \u00a0Well Lived.\u00a0 RIP.<\/p>\n<p>Regards Robert Hall<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/charlie-micallef-passed-away-7-2-24-aged-74-years\/a-young-charlie\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8458\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8458\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/charlie-micallef-passed-away-7-2-24-aged-84-years\/a-young-charlie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/A-Young-Charlie.png?fit=960%2C832&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,832\" 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=\"A Young Charlie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/A-Young-Charlie.png?fit=720%2C624&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8458 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/A-Young-Charlie.png?resize=720%2C624&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/A-Young-Charlie.png?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/A-Young-Charlie.png?resize=300%2C260&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/A-Young-Charlie.png?resize=768%2C666&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Funeral for the late Carmelo (Charlie) Joseph Micallef 27<sup>th<\/sup> July 1939 \u2013 7<sup>th<\/sup> February 2024 age 84 was held at Tobin Brothers\u00a0Funerals Berwick Vic. On Tuesday 13<sup>th<\/sup> February at 2pm. \u00a0Attended by about 90 Family, Friends, with former Armaguard Colleagues, OTC(A) \/ OTVA Veterans namely : \u00a0Yashmin Beaumont, John Caulfield, Ashley Foote, Paul. S. Murphy, Harold Murphy, Robert and\u00a0Judith Hall who both spoke of Charlie as a Colleague and friend of 60 plus years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/charlie-micallef-passed-away-7-2-24-aged-74-years\/charlie-face-2000s\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8475\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8475\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/charlie-micallef-passed-away-7-2-24-aged-84-years\/charlie-face-2000s\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Charlie-Face-2000s-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-A136B&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1708460214&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.050005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Charlie Face 2000s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Charlie-Face-2000s-scaled.jpg?fit=720%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8475 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Charlie-Face-2000s.jpg?resize=720%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Charlie-Face-2000s-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Charlie-Face-2000s-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Charlie-Face-2000s-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Charlie-Face-2000s-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Charlie-Face-2000s-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Charlie-Face-2000s-scaled.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to report to you that our \u00a0Colleague\u00a0 Charlie Micallef passed away at 5am this morning 7.2.2024. He was very peaceful. Charlie was 84 years old. Charlie worked in Melbourne Operating Room (MOR).\u00a0Charlie commenced at OTC (A) \u00a0Queen Street Melbourne in December 1957 in MOR moving through the ranks over the years resigning in 1985 [&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-8456","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-2co","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","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=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8476,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions\/8476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}