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He was born December 8, 1933, in Van Wert County, a son of Lawrence and Edith (McClure) Kreischer, who both preceded him in death. His wife Cheryl L. (Wells) Kreischer, survives him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other survivors include his daughters, Bonnie Thatcher and Sue Harting; a son, Jeff Kreischer; his grandchildren, Bryn Nicole Thatcher, Brock Thatcher, Clint Harting, and Cole (Katie) Harting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was preceded in death by a son, Bradley, who died in infancy; eight brothers, Gaylord, Ralph, Robert, Floyd, his twin Gerald, Larry, Max, and Jimmie; and a sister, Barbara Bashore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He retired from Federal-Mogul Corporation in Van Wert after 41 years of employment and he farmed for more than 60 years. He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He loved to play the harmonica and played it many, many times for a dear child, Jordy Custer. He accepted challenges as they came in his life with faith in God and went on with life. He was a skilled craftsman and stayed with a project until it was finished to his satisfaction. He also enjoyed spending many of his winters in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, September 4, at First United Methodist Church in Van Wert, with the Rev. Chris Farmer officiating. Burial will take place in Maumee Cemetery in Antwerp.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Visitation is from 2-8 p.m. Tuesday, September 3, at Brickner Funeral Home in Van Wert and an hour prior to services Wednesday at the church. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Preferred memorials: First United Methodist Church and Van Wert Community Health Professionals-Hospice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Condolences may be expressed at www.bricknerfuneralhome.com<\/a>or emailed to bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Harold D. Kreischer, 85, of Van Wert, died at 9 a.m. Friday, August 30, 2019, at Van Wert Manor. He was born December 8, 1933, in Van Wert County, a son of Lawrence and Edith (McClure) Kreischer, who both preceded him in death. His wife Cheryl L. (Wells) Kreischer, survives him. Other survivors include his daughters, […]<\/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-122058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:24:30","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\/122058","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=122058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}