{"id":8710,"date":"2025-03-25T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:58:51","slug":"bill-martin-passed-away-17-3-25-aged-89-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/bill-martin-passed-away-17-3-25-aged-89-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Martin &#8211; Passed Away 17\/3\/25 &#8211; Aged 89 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Morrison has passed on the sad news of the passing of Bill Martin.<\/p>\n<p>A little bad news to report, Bill Martin passed away 6am 17<sup>th<\/sup> March, he was 89.<\/p>\n<p>He worked for the PMG prior to joining the ranks of OTC and worked in the S.O.R from 1961-1989<\/p>\n<p>He played Rugby League and Cricket way back in the 60\u2019s when O.T.C was a great place to work\u00a0 !!<\/p>\n<p>Bill had been in poor health since having a stroke some years ago. He was in St George Hospital suffering from U.T.I.\u00a0and some blood problems and then caught Covid.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife Dawn and sons Stephen and David.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no funeral as such, probably a memorial afternoon celebration of life sometime in the future. John will advise when this is known.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>John M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Morrison has passed on the sad news of the passing of Bill Martin. A little bad news to report, Bill Martin passed away 6am 17th March, he was 89. He worked for the PMG prior to joining the ranks of OTC and worked in the S.O.R from 1961-1989 He played Rugby League and Cricket [&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-8710","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-2gu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710","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=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8711,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}