{"id":847,"date":"2009-05-09T15:29:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T21:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2009-05-15T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T04:02:19","slug":"sk-denny-findley-kd5yrr-may-8-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"SK &#8211; Denny Findley, KD5YRR  &#8211; May  8, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"kd5yrr\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kd5yrr.jpg\" alt=\"kd5yrr\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/>We&#8217;ve just learned the bad news that Denny Findley KD5YRR has passed away.\u00a0 Denny suffered a heart attack and was declared deceased at 4pm on Friday, May 8th.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Denny\u00a0 was best known for his laugh, generous spirit, distinctive voice on the radio, driving a convertible and smoking cigars out on the back patio of his house while talking on the AARO radio nets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He held\u00a0a general class ham license, and was a member of AARO.\u00a0 His &#8220;day job&#8221; was providing chaplain services at various prisons.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">Schertz Funeral Home<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">2217 FM 3009 at IH35N<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">Schertz, TX<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">210-658-9224<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">Thursday- Visitation<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">Friday 10 am at the funeral home (services) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">from there they will go Ft Sam National Cemetery!<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">Rosie is surrounded by family and appears to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">be holding up\u00a0FAIRLY well!<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0&#8211; 73s\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">Gordon<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"kd5yrr-sk-mrs\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kd5yrr-sk-mrs-350x266.jpg\" alt=\"kd5yrr-sk-mrs\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"350\" height=\"266\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Gordon, K5SUZ, for passing along this unfortunate news, and keeping us informed of the funeral arrangements. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo at right, provided by Jorge Martinez, W4KTP, and referred to in his comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just learned the bad news that Denny Findley KD5YRR has passed away.\u00a0 Denny suffered a heart attack and was declared deceased at 4pm on Friday, May 8th.\u00a0\u00a0 Denny\u00a0 was best known for his laugh, generous spirit, distinctive voice on the radio, driving a convertible and smoking cigars out on the back patio of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,147],"tags":[149,148,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}