{"id":164959,"date":"2023-04-10T04:59:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=164959"},"modified":"2023-04-10T04:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:59:10","slug":"helen-j-huston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/04\/10\/helen-j-huston\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen J. Huston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Helen J. Huston, 86, of Van Wert, passed away Saturday, April 8, 2023, at her residence.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was born February 16, 1937, in Van Wert County, the daughter of Floyd Jacks and Thelma (Uncapher) Jacks, who both preceded her in death.&nbsp; She married Jess Edward Huston, Jr. March 3, 1956, and he preceded her in death December 2, 1986.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/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\/2023\/04\/4F6B5772-9486-4D50-B6E7-15E22ABE19A3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164960\" width=\"317\" height=\"512\"\/><figcaption>Helen Huston<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family survivors include her two sons, Douglas Huston (Jeff Stith) of Orlando, Florida and Keith (Elena) Huston of Crandall, Texas; two daughters, Karen York (Robert Pauley) of Albany, Ohio, and Cindy (Uriah) Stephens of Van Wert; 11 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren and one sister, Mary Kay (John) Purmort of Van Wert.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to her parents, Helen was preceded in death by a son, Scot Huston (stillborn) in 1966; a great-grandson, Keatyn York, in 2018, and her long time companion, Richard Rader.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen worked at Borden Foods as a lab technician and Findlay Industries as a seamstress where she retired from in 2002. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Van Wert and the Ohio City and Van Wert Chapters of Eastern Star. Helen was also a member of the VFW Auxiliary and the Secret Angel Stitchers.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be held&nbsp;at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Cowan &amp; Son Funeral Home, Van Wert, with Pastors Chris Farmer and Gus Christo-Baker officiating. Interment will take place at Duck Creek Cemetery, Mercer County. Visitation will be&nbsp;from 5-8 p.m. Monday, April 10, at the funeral home.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred memorials: Van Wert Humane Society and First United Methodist Church.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed on the Tribute Wall at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cowanfuneralhome.com\">cowanfuneralhome.com<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen J. Huston, 86, of Van Wert, passed away Saturday, April 8, 2023, at her residence.&nbsp;&nbsp; She was born February 16, 1937, in Van Wert County, the daughter of Floyd Jacks and Thelma (Uncapher) Jacks, who both preceded her in death.&nbsp; She married Jess Edward Huston, Jr. March 3, 1956, and he preceded her in [&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-164959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 17:29:27","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\/164959","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=164959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164965,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164959\/revisions\/164965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}