{"id":122056,"date":"2019-08-31T13:48:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T18:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=122056"},"modified":"2019-08-31T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T18:48:57","slug":"billie-gene-kear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/08\/31\/billie-gene-kear\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Gene Kear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Billie Gene Kear, 88, passed away unexpectedly after a very brief illness on August 29, 2019, surrounded by his beloved wife, JoAnn Kear, n\u00e9e Murphy, and their five children.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"66\" src=\"https:\/\/www.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 born July 17, 1931 in Van Wert, the son of Robert Eugene and Edith Kear, n\u00e9e German, who both preceded him in death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A private memorial will be held at a later date.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Condolences may be offered to the family at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollomon-brown.com\/\">www.hollomon-brown.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Gene Kear, 88, passed away unexpectedly after a very brief illness on August 29, 2019, surrounded by his beloved wife, JoAnn Kear, n\u00e9e Murphy, and their five children.\u00a0 He was born July 17, 1931 in Van Wert, the son of Robert Eugene and Edith Kear, n\u00e9e German, who both preceded him in death.&nbsp; A [&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-122056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 08:20:47","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\/122056","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=122056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}