{"id":22857,"date":"2024-12-30T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/?p=22857"},"modified":"2025-01-02T10:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T16:38:03","slug":"passing-of-gary-kelly-club-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/?p=22857","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Gary Kelly, Club Co-Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is with great sadness that we have to announce the loss of one of Badger State Vettes founding members.  Gary Kelly passed away during the night on 30-December-2024.  Gary was instrumental in the success of the club and was an active participant in club activities for over 40 years.  We would not be where we are today without the contributions made by Gary and his wife Pat Kelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gary-Kelly-Obit.png\" alt=\"Gary Kelly Obituary\" class=\"wp-image-22858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gary-Kelly-Obit.png 548w, https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gary-Kelly-Obit-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 85vw, 548px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BSV-40th-Anniversary-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Badger State Vettes 40th Anniversary Club Photo\" class=\"wp-image-22861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BSV-40th-Anniversary-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BSV-40th-Anniversary-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BSV-40th-Anniversary-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BSV-40th-Anniversary-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BSV-40th-Anniversary-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BSV-40th-Anniversary.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Badger State Vettes 40th Anniversary Club Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement of the passing of Gary Kelly, the co-founder of Badger State Vettes on 30-December-2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22862,"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions\/22862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badgerstatevettes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}