Phyllis J. Ringwald, 88, of Middle Point, died at 8:52 p.m. Sunday, June 9, 2019, at St. Rita\u2019s Medical Center in Lima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was born February 7, 1931, in Van Wert, a daughter of Thurston and Tressie O. (Lee) Taylor, who both preceded her in death. On December 24, 1966, she married Stanley D. Ringwald, who survives in Middle Point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also surviving are her children, Bobaleen (Chuck) Schulte, Tamara L. (Ed) Rice, and John (Leslie) Ringwald, all of Van Wert, and Michael (Kate) Ringwald of Middle Point; eight grandchildren, Briana Geiger, Tressa Ringwald, Shay Ringwald, Joshua Ringwald, Franklin Ringwald, Toby Peel, Mandy Decker, and Jessika Rice; and seven great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A brother, Donald E. Taylor, also preceded her in death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was a homemaker and for several years worked at Federal-Mogul Corporation in Van Wert. She loved camping and basket collecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 13, at Brickner Funeral Home in Van Wert, with Pastor Tim Owens officiating.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Visitation is from 4-6 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Preferred memorials: Middle Point United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Condolences may be expressed at\u00a0www.bricknerfuneralhome.com<\/a>or emailed to\u00a0bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Phyllis J. Ringwald, 88, of Middle Point, died at 8:52 p.m. Sunday, June 9, 2019, at St. Rita\u2019s Medical Center in Lima. She was born February 7, 1931, in Van Wert, a daughter of Thurston and Tressie O. (Lee) Taylor, who both preceded her in death. On December 24, 1966, she married Stanley D. Ringwald, […]<\/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-119099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 12:37:16","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\/119099","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=119099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}