{"id":139604,"date":"2021-01-27T22:11:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T03:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139604"},"modified":"2021-01-27T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T03:11:07","slug":"john-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/01\/27\/john-may\/","title":{"rendered":"John May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John \u201cChops\u201d May, 60, of Celina, passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021, at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/John-May-obit-photo-1-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139608\"\/><figcaption>John &#8216;Chops&#8217; May<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born December 29, 1960, the son of James Joseph May, who preceded him in death, and Lovest Sue (Akerman) May, who survives in Celina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is also survived by his sisters and brothers-in-law, Charlotte (Keith) Peggs of Chickasaw, Anna (Scott) Bertke of Coldwater, and Angela (Kevin) Kittle of Mendon; his brother and sister-in-law, Jody (Brenda) May of Celina, and several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and cousins.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John graduated from Celina High School with the Class of 1979. He owned and operated May Livestock Trucking Company and was a member of the Erastus United Methodist Church.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He enjoyed going to Eldora to watch the races, listening to music, playing golf, and fishing. He also liked to watch his favorite sports teams play: the Dallas Cowboy football team and the Cincinnati Reds, and auto racer Jeff Gordon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John will be missed by all that knew him. He was the type of person that never met a stranger.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Private family services will be held at Lehman-Dzendzel Funeral Home in Celina and a celebration of John\u2019s life services will be scheduled at a later date.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred memorials: The May family at P.O. Box 13 Mendon, OH 45862.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehmandzendzelfh.com\/\">www.LehmanDzendzelFH.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John \u201cChops\u201d May, 60, of Celina, passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021, at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus.&nbsp;&nbsp; He was born December 29, 1960, the son of James Joseph May, who preceded him in death, and Lovest Sue (Akerman) May, who survives in Celina.&nbsp; He is also survived by his sisters and brothers-in-law, Charlotte (Keith) [&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-139604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 14:19:28","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\/139604","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=139604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}