{"id":140995,"date":"2021-03-11T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140995"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:28:39","slug":"former-mayor-don-farmer-dies-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/03\/11\/former-mayor-don-farmer-dies-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Former mayor Don Farmer dies Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local businessman and former two-term Van Wert mayor Don Farmer died Tuesday at a Fort Wayne, Indiana, hospice center. He was 82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/VW-City-Council-mtg-10-26-15-Mayor-Farmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69246\" width=\"350\" height=\"275\"\/><figcaption>Former mayor Don Farmer during a Van Wert City Council meeting. <em>VW independent file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmer, a Pennsylvania native, later moved to California, where he graduated from Fresno High School and earned a business degree from Los Angeles State College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He later moved to Van Wert, where he owned and operated Mac\u2019s Delicatessen and The Paint Bucket, as well as PAVE Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmer served two non-consecutive four-year terms as mayor, from 2004-2007 and from 2012-2015. He also served several terms on Van Wert City Council, representing the First and Second Wards and as an at-large councilman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his government service, Farmer was very much involved in the community, serving at one time on the boards of the Community Improvement Corporation, Van Wert Area Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau, Main Street Van Wert, The Salvation Army, Van Wert City Revolving Loan Fund, Van Wert Civil Service Commission, Van Wert Planning Commission, and Community Health Professionals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was also a former board member of the Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce, and was a recipient of the Chamber\u2019s prestigious Ray Miller Award. Farmer also was a member of First United Methodist Church in Van Wert and a former member of Van Wert Rotary Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survivors include his wife, Nancy; four children, Robert \u201cSkip\u201d Farmer, Everett Farmer, Donna (Joe) Gregory, and Scott \u201cClint\u201d Farmer; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Services will be conducted this Saturday (see full obituary on the Obituaries page).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent Local businessman and former two-term Van Wert mayor Don Farmer died Tuesday at a Fort Wayne, Indiana, hospice center. He was 82. Farmer, a Pennsylvania native, later moved to California, where he graduated from Fresno High School and earned a business degree from Los Angeles State College. He later moved to Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 05:40:42","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\/140995","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=140995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}