{"id":112724,"date":"2019-01-30T16:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=112724"},"modified":"2019-01-30T17:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T22:06:21","slug":"naomi-lucille-counterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/01\/30\/naomi-lucille-counterman\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Lucille Counterman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Naomi Lucille Counterman, 91, of Rockford, died Tuesday evening, January 29, 2019, at the Laurels of Shane Hill in Rockford.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was born April 15, 1927, at home in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, the daughter of Raymond Edward and Ocie Mae (Wurster) Smith, who both preceded her in death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survivors include two children, Duane (Diane) Counterman and Pamela (John) Stapleton, both of Rockford; four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; a sister Wilma Houts of Celina; one stepsister, Juanita (Tom) Wise of Van Wert; a stepbrother, Glen Wurster of Bonita Springs, Florida; one brother-in-law, Gene Counterman of Convoy; and two sisters-in-law, Marie Schnarre and Mary Hull, both of Celina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her stepmother, Thelma Wurster; a brother, Ronald Smith; and two stepbrothers, Wayne and John Wurster, also preceded her in death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, February 2, at Ketcham-Ripley Funeral Home in Rockford, with Pastor Tom Brunstrup officiating. Burial will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Visitation is an hour prior to services Saturday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ketchamripley.com\/\">http:\/\/ketchamripley.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Lucille Counterman, 91, of Rockford, died Tuesday evening, January 29, 2019, at the Laurels of Shane Hill in Rockford.&nbsp;&nbsp; She was born April 15, 1927, at home in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, the daughter of Raymond Edward and Ocie Mae (Wurster) Smith, who both preceded her in death.&nbsp; Survivors include two children, Duane (Diane) [&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-112724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 16:24:21","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\/112724","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=112724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}