{"id":2886,"date":"2017-06-01T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2022-08-22T18:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T17:33:34","slug":"much-respected-croydon-swimming-stalwart-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Much respected Croydon swimming stalwart dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marjorie Quested, a staunch supporter of swimming in Croydon for many decades, has died at the age of 95.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2883 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarjorieQuested-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarjorieQuested-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarjorieQuested-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarjorieQuested-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarjorieQuested.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Her involvement in the sport can be traced back to\u00a0the Sixties.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">London Swimming vice-president Diane Gamble said\u00a0that Marjorie and her late husband, Ken, had been \u201cstalwarts of swimming in Croydon for many years.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marjorie was a Croydon Borough Swimming Association official and executive member from 1962 until 1997.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She was a Surrey official from 1962 until 1995.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1965 she became secretary of Thornton Heath SC, a post she held for fifteen years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From 1980 until 1985 she was secretary of Woodside and Thornton Heath SC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1997, Croydon Council presented her with a long service to sport.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She leaves behind a son and daughter, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Croydon Borough Swimming Association official and executive member Marjorie Quested dies aged 95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}