{"id":164049,"date":"2023-03-13T08:52:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=164049"},"modified":"2023-03-13T08:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:52:24","slug":"orland-d-freewalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/03\/13\/orland-d-freewalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Orland D. Freewalt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Orland D. Freewalt, age 92, of rural Mendon, passed away on Friday, March 10, 2023, at Roselawn Manor in Spencerville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born June 1, 1930, in Celina, to the late Edward & Nora (Smith) Freewalt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Orland Freewalt<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Orland and Doris Washburn were married on December 31, 1950, and she survives. They recently celebrated their 72nd Wedding Anniversary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Surviving are their children, Larry (Cheryl) Freewalt of Ohio City, and Linda (Rick) Etgen\u00a0and Edward K. Freewalt of Mendon, five grandchildren, Jerry (Karen) Freewalt,\u00a0Jason (Erika)\u00a0Freewalt, Rachel Spencer, Darrell (Nancy) Etgen, and Shawn\u00a0(Erika)\u00a0Freewalt; 18 great-grandchildren; a brother-in-law, Don (Helen) Washburn,\u00a0and\u00a0sister-in-law,\u00a0Tillie Washburn, of St. Marys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orland was preceded in death by a granddaughter, April Etgen Buckler; great-grandson,\u00a0Joshua Etgen; a sister and two brothers, Mary Jean (Howard) Lauth,\u00a0Forest Freewalt, and\u00a0Denver (Martha) Freewalt; parents-in-law, Harley and Violet Washburn, and\u00a0brothers-in-law\u00a0and sisters-in-law: Mary (William) Houser, James Washburn, and Shirley (Donald) Clement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A graduate of Spencerville High School, Orland served with the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was a member of the occupation forces in Germany, guarding the Russian border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orland was a farmer, and had also worked at Ohio Deck in Spencerville, the Paper Mill\u00a0in\u00a0St. Marys, and retired from U.S. Metalcraft in Delphos.\u00a0\u00a0He was a life member of Spencerville VFW Post #6772, and had attended the Pleasant\u00a0Grove\u00a0Baptist Church near Mendon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An avid outdoorsman, over the years Orland enjoyed fishing, hunting and trapping. He also raised livestock, and put out a large garden, providing food for the family.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funeral Services will be held\u00a0at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 15, at\u00a0W.H. Dick\u00a0&\u00a0Sons-Hellwarth Funeral Home, Mendon, with Pastor Randy Christian officiating. Burial will follow at Mendon Cemetery, with graveside military honors to be conducted\u00a0by members of the Spencerville VFW. Calling hours will be held from\u00a02-4\u00a0and\u00a06-8 p.m., Tuesday, March 14, and one hour prior\u00a0to the Services Wednesday, at the funeral home.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memorial contributions may be made to the Mendon Union Fire Department. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Condolences can be expressed to the Freewalt family at\u00a0dickandsonshellwarthfh.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orland D. Freewalt, age 92, of rural Mendon, passed away on Friday, March 10, 2023, at Roselawn Manor in Spencerville.  He was born June 1, 1930, in Celina, to the late Edward & Nora (Smith) Freewalt. Orland and Doris Washburn were married on December 31, 1950, and she survives. They recently celebrated their 72nd Wedding Anniversary.  Surviving […]<\/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-164049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 17:16:48","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\/164049","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=164049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164052,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164049\/revisions\/164052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}