THE FOLLOWING PHONE TEXT WAS RECENTLY RECEIVED BY ALAN WEBB and KEN VESSEY FROM ANITA WASTIE:<\/p>\n
“DEAR KEN,ALAN & CHELSEA BOYS<\/p>\n
IT IS WITH A HEAVY HEART THAT I INFORM YOU OF THE PASSING OF MY BROTHER-IN-LAW ,LENNIE WASTIE.<\/p>\n
LENNIE PASSED AWAY ON 19\/1\/16 AT PENINSULA NURSING VILLAGE,UMINA BEACH,WHERE HE WAS A RESIDENT FOR MANY YEARS AFTER SUFFERING A STROKE IN 1995.<\/p>\n
MY LATE HUSBAND,FRED WASTIE & I KEPT LENNIE INFORMED OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN & AROUND SYDNEY & THE CHELSEA BOYS. LENNIE LOOKED FWD TO READING YOUR CHELSEA OLD MATES NEWSLETTER (INDICATING WHO HE REMEMBERED).<\/p>\n
LENNIE WAS A PROMISING RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYER WHILST A STUDENT AT MARCELLAN COLLEGE & HE LATER PLAYED IN THE SOUTHS JUNIOR RUGBY LEAGUE,<\/p>\n
ON BEHALF OF BOTH FRED & LEN,I TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY IN THANKING YOU FOR YOUR MANY YEARS OF MATESHIP.<\/p>\n
BOTH FRED & LEN SPENT MANY YEARS,BOTH CHILDHOOD YEARS & LATER IN ADULT LIFE,STILL IN TOUCH WITH THE MATES THAT FORMED A BACKBONE IN THEIR LIVES.<\/p>\n
THANKS TO HIS MATES WHO VISITED LENNIE THESE PAST TWO DECADES.<\/p>\n
THE RED & GREEN COLOURS THAT YOU DID DECORATE HIS ROOM WITH.<\/p>\n
HOW HAPPY THE REDFERN BROTHERS WERE IN 2014 WHEN THEIR RABBITOHS MADE IT HOME ! YAY.<\/p>\n
KIND REGARDS,<\/p>\n
ANITA WASTIE ”<\/p>\n
We have thanked Anita for informing us of Len’s passing and offered our deepest condolences.<\/p>\n
We will always remember Len & Fred Wastie.<\/p>\n
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE FOLLOWING PHONE TEXT WAS RECENTLY RECEIVED BY ALAN WEBB and KEN VESSEY FROM ANITA WASTIE: “DEAR KEN,ALAN & CHELSEA BOYS IT IS WITH A HEAVY HEART THAT I INFORM YOU OF THE PASSING OF MY BROTHER-IN-LAW ,LENNIE WASTIE. LENNIE PASSED AWAY ON 19\/1\/16 AT PENINSULA NURSING VILLAGE,UMINA BEACH,WHERE HE WAS A RESIDENT FOR MANY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}