{"id":4664,"date":"2019-01-19T23:10:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2019-03-16T18:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T18:10:04","slug":"our-oldest-resident-has-passed-away-age-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/our-oldest-resident-has-passed-away-age-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Oldest Resident has passed away, age 98"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190118_RIP-Eric_Carter_ex-Nick-834x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190118_RIP-Eric_Carter_ex-Nick-834x1024.jpg 834w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190118_RIP-Eric_Carter_ex-Nick-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190118_RIP-Eric_Carter_ex-Nick-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190118_RIP-Eric_Carter_ex-Nick-730x897.jpg 730w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190118_RIP-Eric_Carter_ex-Nick.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><figcaption>Eric Carter recently<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Carter, the oldest person in Packington, has died, aged 98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric was a journalist all his working life. Born in December 1920, he started as a reporter on his home town paper, the <em>Bideford Gazette<\/em>, before being called up during the Second World War, serving in India and Burma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon\ndemobilisation, he picked up his journalistic career working for\nlocal weekly and daily papers in Kent and Devon before heading to\nFleet Street. In London, he worked on various national papers\nincluding the <em>Daily Express<\/em>, <em>Daily Sketch<\/em> and <em>Sunday\nPictorial<\/em> as well as for a number of magazines such as <em>London\nLife<\/em> and the <em>Telegraph Magazine<\/em>. He was assistant editor\nof <em>TV Times<\/em> when he decided to return to Devon and run his own\nnewspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He bought the <em>Dawlish\nGazette<\/em> in 1972, and he and wife Betty \u2013 with reporting help\nfrom son Nick \u2013 ran the paper for ten years before selling up and\nmoving to Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Here both worked on the <em>Kent\nand Sussex Courier<\/em>, the paper where they met in 1946 before\nmarrying in 1948: the couple celebrated their 70<sup>th<\/sup> wedding\nanniversary last July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon retirement Betty\nand Eric moved to Packington to be near Nick and his family. Eric\ndied in his Hall Lane home on 15<sup>th<\/sup> January of heart\nfailure. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The funeral <\/strong>will be held at Holy Rood Church, Packington, LE65 1UZ on <strong>Wednesday 30<\/strong><sup><strong>th<\/strong><\/sup><strong> January 2019<\/strong> <strong>at noon<\/strong>. Family flowers only but donations can be made to Blind Veterans UK, c\/o Lee Cooper Funeral Directors, The Old Courthouse, Belvoir Road, Coalville, Leicestershire LE67 3PN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Carter, the oldest person in Packington, has died, aged 98. Eric was a journalist all his working life. Born in December 1920, he started as a reporter on his home town paper, the Bideford Gazette, before being called up during the Second World War, serving in India and Burma. Upon demobilisation, he picked up &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/our-oldest-resident-has-passed-away-age-98\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Our Oldest Resident has passed away, age 98&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-village-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}