{"id":8604,"date":"2024-07-26T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2024-07-26T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:21:10","slug":"f-c-hickling-aka-bill-hickling-passed-away-22-may-2024-aged-95-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/f-c-hickling-aka-bill-hickling-passed-away-22-may-2024-aged-95-years\/","title":{"rendered":"F C Hickling (aka Bill Hickling) &#8211; Passed Away 22 May 2024 &#8211; Aged 95 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Secretary, Will Whyte, received a letter from Bill&#8217;s daughter, Andrea, to advise of his passing.<\/p>\n<p>My father Frederick Clive Hickling, also known as Bill, recently passed away, at the age of 95 years, on the 22&#x2122; May. One of his instructions to me was to inform yourselves when this happened.<\/p>\n<p>My Dad started his working life at Cable and Wireless and retired thirty nine years later in 1989 from the OTC.<\/p>\n<p>He was married to Norma decd, had two children, four grandchildren and four great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>He lived a very active and healthy life until his final year which saw his health decline rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<br \/>\nAndrea Russell<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/f-c-hickling-aka-bill-hickling-passed-away-22-may-2024-aged-95-years\/f-c-hickling\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8605\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8605\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/f-c-hickling-aka-bill-hickling-passed-away-22-may-2024-aged-95-years\/f-c-hickling\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/F-C-HIckling.jpg?fit=362%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"362,475\" 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;1722014414&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=\"F C HIckling\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/F-C-HIckling.jpg?fit=362%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8605 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/F-C-HIckling.jpg?resize=362%2C475&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/F-C-HIckling.jpg?w=362&amp;ssl=1 362w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/F-C-HIckling.jpg?resize=229%2C300&amp;ssl=1 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Secretary, Will Whyte, received a letter from Bill&#8217;s daughter, Andrea, to advise of his passing. My father Frederick Clive Hickling, also known as Bill, recently passed away, at the age of 95 years, on the 22&#x2122; May. One of his instructions to me was to inform yourselves when this happened. My Dad started his [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8604","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-2eM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604","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=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8607,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}