{"id":1438,"date":"2025-12-23T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:41:31","slug":"sad-news-the-passing-of-adm-tony-rowley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/2025\/12\/sad-news-the-passing-of-adm-tony-rowley\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad News: the passing of ADM Tony Rowley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Dear 7th Fleet,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is with great sadness that I report on the passing of former USS Malverne commanding officer ADM Tony Rowley, who also served as one of my VRCs when I served as Regional Coordinator in the 1990s. Tony had also served as R7 Chief of Staff and was part of Mike Smith&#8217;s staff when he was CS.<\/p>\n<p>Tony died in a fire on Saturday from smoke inhalation and his wife is currently in the hospital. His child Max escaped the fire. We pray for his family. Many long time R7 &amp; STARFLEET members, remember Tony and his work for the organization &#8230; the many fun times we shared at ICs, R7 Conferences, conventions and other regional activities. His untimely death was shocking to learn and I spoke to many people who knew him last night.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the articles concerning the fire. Complete details were not yet available.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/1-dead-7-injured-firefighter-apartment-fire-drexel-hill\/\">At least 1 dead, 7 injured, including firefighter, in Drexel Hill apartment fire &#8211; CBS Philadelphia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tony was involved with the fire department for many years. He was also active with the Civil Air Patrol. He will definitely be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\n<strong><em>ADM Bob Vosseller<br \/>\nRegion 7 Coordinator<br \/>\nCO USS Challenger NCC-1676-D<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear 7th Fleet, It is with great sadness that I report on the passing of former USS Malverne commanding officer ADM Tony Rowley, who also served as one of my VRCs when I served as Regional Coordinator in the 1990s. Tony had also served as R7 Chief of Staff and was part of Mike Smith&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c34-r7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starfleetregion7.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}