Jacobus ‘John’ Bakkum who went missing from High Country pub remembered as community leader

An elderly man who was missing for two days after failing to return from dinner at a High Country pub with his wife has died.

Jacobus ‘John’ Bakkum, 85, died in a Melbourne hospital on Thursday, two days after he was found trapped in his car which had crashed down an embankment in Mitta Mitta,…