{"id":103783,"date":"2025-04-21T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=103783"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:36:46","slug":"elvidge-bill-age-69-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2025\/04\/elvidge-bill-age-69-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvidge, Bill (Age 69, Durham)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-103784 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2025\/04\/949b79a0-bill-elvidge-crop-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Bill \u201cBig\u201d Elvidge, of Durham, passed away at Chapman House, Owen Sound on Friday, April 18th in his 70th year.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved husband of Marie. Loving father of Jill &amp; Cody Schenk, and Dana &amp; Trevor Speers. Cherished Poppa of Curtis Schenk &amp; Bridgette, Rachel Schenk &amp; Clayton, Ava Speers, and Drew Speers. Missed by his devoted nephew Rob Elvidge. Dear brother of Ken Elvidge &amp; Rose, Narcia Watson &amp; Russell, and Kathy McDonald-Gies &amp; Arnold. Brother-in-law of Sue Irwin. Bill will be missed by the Beech family. Fondly remembered by his many nephews and nieces.<\/p>\n<p>Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held at the Durham Legion on Saturday, April 26th at 12 p.m., followed by a come and go celebration of life from 1 &#8211; 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccullochwatsonfuneralhome.ca\/obituaries\/1169\/Bill-Big-Elvidge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click HERE to read full obituary.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill \u201cBig\u201d Elvidge, of Durham, passed away at Chapman House, Owen Sound on Friday, April 18th in his 70th year. Beloved husband of Marie. Loving father of Jill &amp; Cody Schenk, and Dana &amp; Trevor Speers. Cherished Poppa of Curtis Schenk &amp; Bridgette, Rachel Schenk &amp; Clayton, Ava Speers, and Drew Speers. Missed by his","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40,10864,41],"class_list":["post-103783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-durham","tag-elvidge","tag-mcculloch-watson-funeral-home"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 04:24:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2025\/04\/elvidge-bill-age-69-durham\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103785,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103783\/revisions\/103785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}