{"id":42926,"date":"2021-01-13T16:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/?p=42926"},"modified":"2021-01-13T16:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:41:39","slug":"passing-of-eddie-bowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/01\/13\/passing-of-eddie-bowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Eddie Bowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Passing of Eddie Bowers<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"v1v1MsoNormal\">Edwin known as Eddie to many of our long standing Centre Members joined the Centre in 1970 with&nbsp;his first wife Mary who sadly passed away in 1999.&nbsp; They became Life Members of the Caravan Club&nbsp;which they were very proud of. He attended many Centre rallies over the years as Members and Rally&nbsp;Officers and as a Committee Member for several years.&nbsp; He was always very active and a popular Member&nbsp;on the rally field and was well known for being the Centre\u2019s Auctioneer on all our Charity Rallies and&nbsp;helped raise considerable funds for the charities concerned.&nbsp; He was the proud owner and the envy of&nbsp;members with his superb 3.5 Litre Rover Coupe and his Castleton caravan.&nbsp; He organised Centre rallies&nbsp;and holiday rallies in the UK, Germany and Holland for members and visitors. He was always a feature&nbsp;on the top table of the Burns Night Dinner Dances at Bashley Park. He was quite a character, there was&nbsp;never a dull moment when he was on the rally field. &nbsp;He will no doubt be a sad loss to the West Hampshire&nbsp;Centre, the Caravan Club and now the Caravan and Motorhome Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v1v1MsoNormal\">He married Heather in 2001.&nbsp; They rallied when possible until he became unwell &nbsp;and with great regret&nbsp;gave up caravanning in 2005 and had to go into a care home in 2012. &nbsp;Even there he was still trying to&nbsp;organise things !!!&nbsp; &nbsp;One thing for sure is we will never forget our time and rallying with Eddie Bowers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v1v1MsoNormal\">There are no funeral arrangements at the moment. It will however of course be subject to the current&nbsp;Covid \u2013 19 Government restrictions for funeral arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to send your condolences or a card please contact the Centre Secretary at secretary@whampshirecc.co.uk for address details<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing of Eddie Bowers &nbsp; Edwin known as Eddie to many of our long standing Centre Members joined the Centre in 1970 with&nbsp;his first wife Mary who sadly passed away in 1999.&nbsp; They became Life Members of the Caravan Club&nbsp;which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":786,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whampshirecc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}