{"id":172760,"date":"2025-12-07T23:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172760\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:35:08","slug":"former-pm-helen-clark-announces-death-of-centenarian-father-frederick-george-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172760\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PM Helen Clark announces death of centenarian father Frederick George Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDad was a pillar of the Te Pahu and Waih\u012b Beach communities, serving on local committees in Te Pahu and the Waikato, and volunteering for conservation-related tasks at Waihi Beach. Much more will be said about Dad\u2019s long and wonderful life at his celebration of life service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark said her father was the \u201cdearly loved husband of our mother\u201d, the late Margaret Helen Clark, for 62 years.<\/p>\n

She also thanked all her father\u2019s dedicated carers \u201cfrom the bottom of our hearts\u201d. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Clark wrote about the amazing day she had with her father, known as George, in March when he turned 103.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope I live to look as well as Dad does at this great age!\u2019 she posted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s phenomenal, really,\u201d Helen Clark said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach of these birthdays since he turned 100 have been big milestones, and you never know which one will be the last. But Dad has a great determination to live, and right now, his goal is March 8.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008, the second woman to hold the nation\u2019s top office.<\/p>\n

More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDad was a pillar of the Te Pahu and Waih\u012b Beach communities, serving on local committees in Te…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111445,694,111442,18788,111444,634,6179,2209,2740,111443,12856,32576,111,43,139,69,1118,16422],"class_list":["post-172760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-111445","tag-announces","tag-centenarian","tag-clark","tag-clarks","tag-death","tag-died","tag-father","tag-former","tag-frederick","tag-george","tag-helen","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}