{"id":2518,"date":"2024-11-26T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2518"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:01:44","slug":"hazel-sexton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/ethel-thornley-stark\/hazel-sexton\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazel Sexton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was born on the 10 Sep 1915\u00a0at\u00a0Mataura, Southland, New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She attended Blacks School in 1921, which is in Alexandra. The family moved to Dunedin at some point as Hazel&#8217;s entire life was spent there. I have been unable to find her occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, Hazel passed away on the 22 August 1974\u00a0at\u00a0Opoho, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. She was cremated and her ashes buried in Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin. She is buried alongside many members of her family, including her father, Silas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hazel-Margaret-Jessie-Mary-1024x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hazel-Margaret-Jessie-Mary-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hazel-Margaret-Jessie-Mary-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hazel-Margaret-Jessie-Mary-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hazel-Margaret-Jessie-Mary.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hazel on left. 2 daughters, 2nd and 4th, of Margaret Mitchel Gardner, Hazel&#8217;s Aunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hazel-sexton-1024x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hazel-sexton-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hazel-sexton-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hazel-sexton-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hazel-sexton-1536x909.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hazel-sexton-2048x1213.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hazel on left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was born on the 10 Sep 1915\u00a0at\u00a0Mataura, Southland, New Zealand. She attended Blacks School in 1921, which is in Alexandra. The family moved to Dunedin at some point as Hazel&#8217;s entire life was spent there. I have been unable to find her occupation. Sadly, Hazel passed away on the 22 August 1974\u00a0at\u00a0Opoho, Dunedin, Otago, New &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/ethel-thornley-stark\/hazel-sexton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hazel Sexton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":897,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2518\/revisions\/3806"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}