{"id":14895,"date":"2018-08-20T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=14895"},"modified":"2018-08-22T01:09:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T05:09:45","slug":"aitkenhead-ronald-archie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/20\/aitkenhead-ronald-archie\/","title":{"rendered":"Aitkenhead, Ronald &#8220;Archie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AITKENHEAD.Ron_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14896\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AITKENHEAD.Ron_-474x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AITKENHEAD.Ron_-474x600.jpg 474w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AITKENHEAD.Ron_-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AITKENHEAD.Ron_.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a>February 13, 1941 to August 18, 2018<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0 Ronald Aitkenhead, known to most as &#8220;Archie,&#8221; passed away peacefully at home in Brighton, after a very long illness.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 Beloved husband to Iris (nee Merke), caring father to Melody (Richard), Holly (Mark) and Kim (Scott), and very proud grandfather\/papa to Joshua, Jordan, Kyle, Gavin, Sharon, Emily and Kate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 He will forever be remembered as one who put his family first and whom always entertained those around him with many stories. He travelled to exotic places in his early years when he served time in the Navy.\u00a0\u00a0A welder by trade, as well, a volunteer firefighter with his two brothers (Jack &amp; Norm) and a few years as a paramedic in Wawa, ON. In his late 40s, he had a life-changing accident while working as a welder at Algoma Ore. With an early retirement, he spent his days fishing, playing card games with his family, and drinking Tim\u2019s coffee (just the way he liked it) while road tripping in his convertible with Iris at the wheel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 In memory, lift up your glass and toast &#8211; a husband, a dad, a grandpa, a papa, a brother, an uncle, and a friend &#8211; entertaining everyone with a tall tale.\u00a0\u00a0We will miss you. Rest In Peace.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 A private family service will be held at a later date.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 As an expression of sympathy, donations to the Charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 Arrangements in care of the Brighton Funeral Home, 613-475-2121.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 1941 to August 18, 2018 \u00a0 Ronald Aitkenhead, known to most as &#8220;Archie,&#8221; passed away peacefully at home in Brighton, after a very long illness. \u00a0 Beloved husband &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1646],"class_list":["post-14895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fnews","tag-ronald-aitkenhead"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 10:49:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14908,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895\/revisions\/14908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}