{"id":29146,"date":"2022-06-26T21:24:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T20:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29146"},"modified":"2022-06-26T21:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T20:24:47","slug":"29146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29146","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday the rainbow flag. Today the Abingdon flag."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022062602.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday the rainbow flag was flying over the County Hall in Abingdon, and today the Abingdon town flag is flying.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon there was a thanksgiving service for Jeanette Halliday at St Nicolas Church. Jeanette died on 17th April 2020, at the start of the first Covid lockdown. Back then, only 8 people were allowed at the South Oxfordshire Crematorium to accompany Jim Halliday, her husband. So this more public memorial was long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>The rainbow flag could almost be a tribute to Jeanette, as could the town flag for one of Abingdon&#8217;s most colourful ex-Mayors. <\/p>\n<p>The music at Jeanette&#8217;s thanksgiving service was sublime. It began with the Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams, followed by a solo sung by Jeanette&#8217;s granddaughter, then some Elgar on piano, and ended with Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison. The Town Clerk, Nigel Warner, gave a eulogy of Jeanette as a public servant who took up and fought cases for local people. Jim Halliday spoke about a person who loved life and travelling.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022062601b.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe town clerk before Nigel Warner was Brian Tonkin. His funeral will be this Tuesday. Brian Tonkin&#8217;s name is still to be found on many officially named notices. Brian was the town clerk when Jeanette was Mayor (1998-9). He was also the chairman of the Abingdon Town Football Club. <\/p>\n<p>(Thank you to the Abingdon Herald\/ Oxford Mail for the picture. This ex-press picture is available from eBay.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the rainbow flag was flying over the County Hall in Abingdon, and today the Abingdon town flag is flying. This afternoon there was a thanksgiving service for Jeanette Halliday at St Nicolas Church. Jeanette died on 17th April 2020, at the start of the first Covid lockdown. Back then, only 8 people were allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}