{"id":10816,"date":"2011-07-18T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T19:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=10816"},"modified":"2011-07-18T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T19:59:26","slug":"debra-lynn-merkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/07\/18\/debra-lynn-merkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Debra Lynn Merkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Lynn Merkle, 46, formerly of Van Wert, died Saturday morning, July 9, 2011, at the residence of a friend in Lima.<\/p>\n<p>She was born April 22, 1965, in La Porte, Ind., the daughter of the late Ralph Harlan and Wanda Geraldine (Merritt) Merkle.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include a son, Jared Harlan Merkle of Findlay; one brother, Steven R. Merkle of Van Wert; and two sisters, Michele (Chad) Longstreth of Van Wert and Melissa (Rick) Bergman of Keystone, Ind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graveside funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday, July 22, at Evangelical Protestant Cemetery in rural Van Wert County, with Van Wert Victory Church clergy officiating. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There will be no calling hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arrangements were handled by Cowan &amp; Son Funeral Home in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>Messages of condolence may be sent to the family at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowanfuneralhome.com\">www.cowanfuneralhome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Lynn Merkle, 46, formerly of Van Wert, died Saturday morning, July 9, 2011, at the residence of a friend in Lima. She was born April 22, 1965, in La Porte, Ind., the daughter of the late Ralph Harlan and Wanda Geraldine (Merritt) Merkle. Survivors include a son, Jared Harlan Merkle of Findlay; one brother, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 02:45:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}