{"id":115843,"date":"2019-04-03T21:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T02:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=115843"},"modified":"2019-04-04T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:03:33","slug":"wilbert-andrew-stoll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/04\/03\/wilbert-andrew-stoll-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilbert Andrew Stoll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is with extreme sadness that the family of Wilbert Andrew Stoll (April 6, 1928-March 29, 2019) announces the passing of a hard working master builder and agricultural wizard with a certain stoic attitude toward life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Wilbert-Stoll-obit-photo-4-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115844\"\/><figcaption><strong>Wilbert Andrew Stoll<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that he could picture himself on the open range because he was a cowboy at heart. In his later years he enjoyed \u201cTVing,\u201d as he called it: watching reruns of old westerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"66\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/American-Flag-for-obituaries-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8711\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He was preceded in death by his parents, William McKinley Stoll and Mary Jane Fifer Stoll, as well as a sister, Ruth.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two siblings, Paul and Betty, currently reside in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years after graduating from high school in Rockford, he married Mary Mottinger. Then Uncle Sam called his name, and he received a trip to England during the Korean War. There he built runways for warplanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A son, Bruce Allan Stoll, was born to this union. Then tragedy struck when Mary died on the operating table. A few years later, Wilbert, a widower with one son, married Dorothy Walls Mann, a widow with three children, Twila, Loran, and Doran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilbert and Dorothy lived near Van Wert until they moved to Florida in the 1970s. They always enjoyed returning to Ohio for family reunions. After Dorothy&#8217;s passing, he made the annual driving trek by himself. The trip in 2018 at the age of 90 was to be his last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His progeny currently numbers four children, nine grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. Wilbert will be sorely missed by family and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A graveside military service will be held at a later date.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with extreme sadness that the family of Wilbert Andrew Stoll (April 6, 1928-March 29, 2019) announces the passing of a hard working master builder and agricultural wizard with a certain stoic attitude toward life. He said that he could picture himself on the open range because he was a cowboy at heart. In [&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-115843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 12:18:43","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\/115843","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=115843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}