{"id":116245,"date":"2019-04-10T23:05:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T04:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=116245"},"modified":"2019-04-10T23:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T04:05:50","slug":"wanda-f-sowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/04\/10\/wanda-f-sowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanda F. Sowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wanda F. Sowers, 75, of Convoy, died at 9:01 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Van Wert Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was born July 19, 1943 in Pathfork, Kentucky, the daughter of Millard D.&nbsp;and Thelma Faye (Valentine) Saylor, who both preceded her in death.&nbsp;On December 8, 1962, she married John J. Sowers, who died December 1, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Randy L. and Lesley Sowers of Van Wert; one daughter, Beth A. Wright; a brother, Jonny (Tami) Saylor of Marshall, Illinois; one sister, Ruth Ann (Gale \u201cRudy\u201d) Matthews of Ohio City; and five grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A brother, Wendell Saylor, also preceded her in death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Memorial services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, April 13, at Cowan &amp; Son Funeral Home in Van Wert, with the Rev. Bud Walls officiating.&nbsp;Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery in Convoy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Visitation is from 9-11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred memorials: Gideons International or the family to aid with funeral expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cowanfuneralhome.com\/\">cowanfuneralhome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda F. Sowers, 75, of Convoy, died at 9:01 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Van Wert Health. She was born July 19, 1943 in Pathfork, Kentucky, the daughter of Millard D.&nbsp;and Thelma Faye (Valentine) Saylor, who both preceded her in death.&nbsp;On December 8, 1962, she married John J. Sowers, who died December 1, 2008. [&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-116245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 17:25:24","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\/116245","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=116245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}