{"id":8462,"date":"2024-02-07T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2024-02-07T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:18:49","slug":"bob-heron-passed-away-23-12-23-aged-in-his-early-to-mid-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/bob-heron-passed-away-23-12-23-aged-in-his-early-to-mid-70s\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Heron &#8211; Passed Away 23\/12\/23 &#8211; Aged in his early to mid-70s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Burdinat advised:<\/p>\n<p>Bob Heron passed away on 23rd December after a long period of complex illnesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/bob-heron-passed-away-23-12-23-aged-in-his-early-to-mid-70s\/bob-and-glennis-dec2023\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8463\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8463\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/bob-heron-passed-away-23-12-23-aged-in-his-early-to-mid-70s\/bob-and-glennis-dec2023\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bob-and-Glennis-Dec2023.jpg?fit=509%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"509,720\" 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=\"Bob and Glennis Dec2023\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bob-and-Glennis-Dec2023.jpg?fit=509%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8463 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bob-and-Glennis-Dec2023.jpg?resize=509%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bob-and-Glennis-Dec2023.jpg?w=509&amp;ssl=1 509w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bob-and-Glennis-Dec2023.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He had prostate cancer over 10 years ago, metastasis melanoma (spelling?) on chest, lots of radiation treatment, CIDP in the legs, a couple of strokes, bladder stones and was in great pain in his legs and feet, unable to walk unassisted.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually succumbed to the cancers after having an early Christmas dinner with wife Glennis and the children and grandchildren at Hervey Bay where they lived for the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Bob&#8217;s daughter Nicky circulated the funeral notices but possibly missed advising some of Bob&#8217;s friends as it appears OTC Vets were not informed.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with Glennis this morning and she was quite surprised that a lot of Bob&#8217;s friends had not been in contact, now she knows why.<\/p>\n<p>Glennis&#8217;s phone number is\u00a0 0437757751 if people want to pass on their condolences.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Scattering of ashes notice.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bob is now in his favourite fishing spots on the Clarence river.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/bob-heron-passed-away-23-12-23-aged-in-his-early-to-mid-70s\/robert-bob-heron\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8467\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8467\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/bob-heron-passed-away-23-12-23-aged-in-his-early-to-mid-70s\/robert-bob-heron\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Robert-Bob-Heron.jpg?fit=398%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"398,720\" 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=\"Robert (Bob) Heron\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Robert-Bob-Heron.jpg?fit=398%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8467\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Robert-Bob-Heron.jpg?resize=398%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Robert-Bob-Heron.jpg?w=398&amp;ssl=1 398w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Robert-Bob-Heron.jpg?resize=166%2C300&amp;ssl=1 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Burdinat advised: Bob Heron passed away on 23rd December after a long period of complex illnesses. He had prostate cancer over 10 years ago, metastasis melanoma (spelling?) on chest, lots of radiation treatment, CIDP in the legs, a couple of strokes, bladder stones and was in great pain in his legs and feet, unable [&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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8462","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-2cu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462","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=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8468,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions\/8468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}