{"id":711,"date":"2012-06-01T10:47:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/?p=711"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:47:15","slug":"goodbye-to-an-industry-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/goodbye-to-an-industry-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to an Industry Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George Brazil&#8217;s Celebration of Life Ceremony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Family, friends, colleagues and employees are saddened at the loss of our long time founder, visionary, and legend, George Brazil. George passed on Wednesday, May 16, after a little over a year battle with illness; he was 83 years old. An icon in the plumbing and home service business world, he will be greatly missed by friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>George is survived by his wife, Patricia Langlin Brazil, as well as his three daughters and one son, five grandchildren and five great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Brazil&#8217;s Celebration of Life Ceremony<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday, June 2, 2012 from 2 p.m. &#8211; 6 p.m. in the Kachina Ballroom<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriott.com\/hotels\/travel\/phxtm-phoenix-marriott-tempe-at-the-buttes\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Buttes<\/a>, a Marriott Resort<br \/>\n2000 Westcourt Way<br \/>\nTempe, AZ 85282<br \/>\n1-888-867-7492<\/p>\n<p>If you plan to attend this event from out of town, a block of rooms has been reserved at the ceremony hotel location. Please call to make reservations with the hotel in the room block titled &#8220;The George Brazil Celebration of Life Room Block&#8221;. The room rates are under $100 per night.<\/p>\n<p>If possible and you plan to attend the ceremony, please message Brian McQuistion through the electronic form on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgebrazilservice.com\/blog\/article\/george-brazils-celebration-of-life-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Brazil Facebook<\/a> page, so that we can have a better idea of attendees. Please also note on the form below if you would like to speak about George at the ceremony. We welcome anyone who would like to share a story or memory in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in memory of George Brazil, to the Mayo Medical School Scholarship Endowment (<a href=\"https:\/\/development-comm.mayoclinic.org\/SSLPage.aspx?pid=191&amp;srcid=191\" target=\"_blank\">click to donate<\/a>), 13400 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 85259.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Brazil&#8217;s Celebration of Life Ceremony Family, friends, colleagues and employees are saddened at the loss of our long time founder, visionary, and legend, George Brazil. George passed on Wednesday, May 16, after a little over a year battle with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/goodbye-to-an-industry-pioneer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nspg-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nspg-software.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}