William Pickering passed away peacefully in the arms of his beloved wife, Mary, and surrounded by family and loved ones on Sunday, June 29, 2025, after a long illness related to kidney disease.

William Pickering's remains were found in a field on June 20, 2019, almost a month after he was murdered in Rockford on May 25, 2019. ...

The scientist-engineer I most admire is William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004). Born in Wellington, he moved at the age of six, after his mother's death, to live with his grandparents in Havelock ...