{"id":118741,"date":"2019-06-01T18:17:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T23:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=118741"},"modified":"2019-06-01T20:06:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T01:06:25","slug":"jeffrey-m-ebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/06\/01\/jeffrey-m-ebel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey M. Ebel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jeffrey M. Ebel, 66, of Grover Hill, passed away the evening of Friday, May 31, 2019, at St. Rita&#8217;s Medical Center in Lima.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Jeff-Ebel-obituary-photo-6-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118742\"\/><figcaption><strong>Jeffrey M. Ebel<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born May 14, 1953, in Breckenridge, North Dakota, the son of Earl and Ethel (Medenwalt)) Ebel, who both preceded him in death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 1971 graduate of Van Wert High School, Jeffrey went on to marry the love of his life, the former Diann L. Gutierrez, on November 24, 1983.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a lifelong outdoorsman, Jeffrey was an avid fisherman, hunter and trapper. He began his career as a meat cutter at Ebel&#8217;s Butchers Shop. He worked his way up to meat department manager for Marsh Supermarket and then Save-A-Lot, from which he retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is survived by his loving wife, Diann L. Ebel of Grover Hill; a son, Kim (Kellianne) Baker of Decatur, Indiana; one daughter, Te&#8217;a (Jason) Davis of Paulding; seven grandchildren, Kelsea (Clint) Williams of St. Marys, Madison Hargrove of Indianapolis, Indiana, Adalyn and Gracie Baker, both of Decatur, and Jae&#8217;da Emans, Kyren Karhoff, and Ali Davis, all of Paulding; four great-grandchildren, Sophie, Brenden, Mia, and Rhett; three brothers, Earl Ebel Jr. of Convoy, Lyle (Debora) Ebel of Grover Hill, and Gregory Ebel of Van Wert; a sister, Faith (Ed) Fabian of Convoy; and many nieces and nephews.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sister-in-law, Cathy Ebel, also preceded him in death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A memorial service will be at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home &amp; Crematory in Van Wert, with Father Charles Obinwa presiding.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Visitation is from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alspachgearhart.com\/\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey M. Ebel, 66, of Grover Hill, passed away the evening of Friday, May 31, 2019, at St. Rita&#8217;s Medical Center in Lima.&nbsp; He was born May 14, 1953, in Breckenridge, North Dakota, the son of Earl and Ethel (Medenwalt)) Ebel, who both preceded him in death.&nbsp; A 1971 graduate of Van Wert High School, [&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-118741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 03:29:53","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\/118741","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=118741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}