{"id":125356,"date":"2019-11-29T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=125356"},"modified":"2019-11-29T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T22:27:49","slug":"thelma-louise-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/11\/29\/thelma-louise-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Thelma Louise Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thelma Louise Walls, 94, formerly of Van Wert, died at 6:49 p.m. Wednesday, November 27, 2019, at the Laurels of Shane Hill surrounded by her loving family.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Thelma-Walls-obit-photo-11-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125357\"\/><figcaption><strong>Thelma Louise Walls<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>She was born March 25, 1925, in Ridge Township, Van Wert County, the daughter of Charles and Mary (Herminghuysen) Stegaman, who both preceded her in death.&nbsp;On April 20, 1946, she married George W. Walls, who died June 16, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survivors include two daughters, Patricia &#8220;Pattie&#8221; Puckett of Muleshoe, Texas, and Sandra &#8220;Sandy&#8221; (Larry) Hirschy of Convoy; six grandchildren, Robert W. (Cathy) Hartman, Michael (Sabrina) Hartman, Kevin (Annette) Hirschy, Cynthia (Phil) Rhea, Teresa (Ron) Wells, and Tracy (Patrice) Puckett; two step-grandchildren, Angie (Arthur) Madrid and Dusty (Cheryl) Puckett; 11 great-grandchildren, Chad (Whittany) Hirschy, Craig (Melissa Roop) Hirschy, Lucas Hartman, Samantha (Kyle)&nbsp;Rode, Lance Hartman, Cory (Taylor) Hirschy, Dylan Hartman, Jaylen Rhea, Megan Hartman, Taylor Rhea, and Ian Puckett; seven step-great-grandchildren, Britni (Billy&nbsp;Roth) Wells and Kayla ( Brandon Williams) Woodruff, Hillary Wells, Peter and Anna Gural, and Anthony and Collin Schnipke; a foster great-grandson, Michael Hansard; six great-great-grandchildren Lea Hirschy, Kayleigh Rode, Kaelynn Hirschy, Olivia Rode, Claire Hirschy, and Rhett Rode; five step-great-great-grandsons, Corbett Roth, Noah Woodruff, Dalton Woodruff, Cooper Roth, and Mason Boyd; two sisters, Alma Williams and Eileene Parish; a sister-in-law, Joan Stegaman; one brother-in-law, Jim Bell; and a host of nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thelma was preceded in death by her son, Robert E. Hartman, a daughter-in-law, Bonnie Hartman, one son-in-law, D.W. &#8220;Dee&#8221; Puckett; two brothers, Harold and Leon &#8220;Bud&#8221; Stegaman; three sisters, Mildred &#8220;Mid&#8221; Cooper, Norma Jean Wyandt, and Alice Bell; and an infant grandson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thelma retired from the Van Wert Federal-Mogul plant in the mid 1980s and then began cleaning offices.&nbsp;She enjoyed playing cards and Bingo, sewing, embroidery, doing word search puzzle books, reading, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, December 1, at Brickner Funeral Home in Van Wert, with the Rev. Paul W. Miller officiating.&nbsp;Burial will follow in Ridge Cemetery in rural Van Wert County.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Visitation is from 3-6 p.m. Saturday, November 30, and an hour prior to services Sunday at the funeral home.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred memorials: Wren Fire and EMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricknerfuneralhome.com\/\">www.bricknerfuneralhome.com<\/a>\u00a0or emailed to\u00a0<a href=\"malto:bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net\">bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thelma Louise Walls, 94, formerly of Van Wert, died at 6:49 p.m. Wednesday, November 27, 2019, at the Laurels of Shane Hill surrounded by her loving family.&nbsp;&nbsp; She was born March 25, 1925, in Ridge Township, Van Wert County, the daughter of Charles and Mary (Herminghuysen) Stegaman, who both preceded her in death.&nbsp;On April 20, [&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-125356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 00:59:27","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\/125356","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=125356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}