{"id":49630,"date":"2013-12-03T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/49630\/long-time-resident-diesorsad-farewell-to-daan-van-coller\/"},"modified":"2013-12-03T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T07:55:58","slug":"long-time-resident-diesorsad-farewell-to-daan-van-coller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/12\/03\/long-time-resident-diesorsad-farewell-to-daan-van-coller\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-time resident dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston resident Daan van Coller passed away on November 24, at the age of 72, after a short battle with cancer. Daan grew up and spent his entire life in Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>He was married for 48 years to Susan, and the couple had three children, Boshof, Arthur and Rene.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He dedicated his time to serving the community and helping people where possible.<\/p>\n<p>Daan was a Germiston town councillor from 1983 to 1988 and served a term as deputy mayor.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He retired in 1992, after working for more than 30 years for Trust Bank and later ABSA.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the Omgeeforum, an organisation which performed charity work in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Daan loved entertaining and making potjiekos or braaivleis for people.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, three children and two grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>His funeral took place on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='56e421575126bfe4c0592353bab5cfe6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad farewell to Daan van Coller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":49631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[2311,979,1494],"class_list":["post-49630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-daan-van-coller","tag-germiston","tag-obituary"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["daan van coller","germiston","obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}