{"id":135014,"date":"2020-09-12T20:44:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T01:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=135014"},"modified":"2020-09-12T20:45:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T01:45:01","slug":"jerry-a-rolsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/09\/12\/jerry-a-rolsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry A. Rolsten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jerry A. Rolsten, 80, of rural Mendon, passed away Friday,\u00a0September 11, 2020, at Mercy Health-St. Rita\u2019s Medical Center\u00a0in Lima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jerry A. Rolsten<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He was born October 18, 1939, in Van Wert County, the son of Carl and Grace (Burley) Rolsten, who both preceded him in death. On June 24, 1977, Jerry married the former Helen L. Slane, who survives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other survivors include three children, Connie (David) Rolsten Wood of Van Wert,\u00a0Scott\u00a0(Cari)\u00a0Rolsten of Mendon, and Jane (Steve) Rolsten Barnes of Celina;four grandchildren, Luke (Rina) Brigham, Seth (Abby) Brigham, and\u00a0Mattea and Mitchell Rolsten; and three great-grandchildren: Brooke,\u00a0Grace,\u00a0and Simon Brigham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An infant brother preceded him in death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After attending Ridge School in Van Wert County, Jerry graduated from\u00a0Mendon-Union High School in 1957.\u00a0He served in the U.S. Army Reserves. A lifetime farmer, Jerry was also a seed salesman for over 50 years.\u00a0Over\u00a0the years,\u00a0he also worked at Teledyne-Ohio Steel in Lima and Trim Trends in\u00a0Spencerville,\u00a0and was a bus driver for Parkway Local Schools for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jerry was a member of Mendon United Methodist Church and had\u00a0formerly\u00a0served\u00a0as Sunday school superintendent.\u00a0He was a longtime\u00a0member of\u00a0Mendon Lions Club and recently the St. Marys Lions.\u00a0Jerry had been a\u00a0member\u00a0and past president of the Mendon Band Boosters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of his favorite pastimes included following the Chicago Cubs and Fort Wayne TinCaps baseball teams, and harness racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, September 16, at W.H. Dick & Sons-Hellwarth Funeral Home in Mendon, with Pastor Don Clinger officiating. Burial will follow in Mendon Cemetery.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitation is from 3-7 p.m. Tuesday, September 15, and from 1 p.m. until the time of services Wednesday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those attending are required to wear masks, practice social distancing as much as possible, and follow the COVID-19 guidelines established by Governor DeWine and the Ohio Department of Health. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preferred memorials: Cancer Association of Mercer County, American Heart Association, or the Arthritis Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Condolences can be expressed to Jerry’s family at dickandsonshellwarthfh.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jerry A. Rolsten, 80, of rural Mendon, passed away Friday,\u00a0September 11, 2020, at Mercy Health-St. Rita\u2019s Medical Center\u00a0in Lima. He was born October 18, 1939, in Van Wert County, the son of Carl and Grace (Burley) Rolsten, who both preceded him in death. On June 24, 1977, Jerry married the former Helen L. Slane, who […]<\/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-135014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 22:18:55","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\/135014","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=135014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}