James Hipsley, 89, currently of Hamilton, Indiana, passed away on Friday, September 28, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was a 1952 graduate of Van Wert High School and a 1968 graduate of Tri-State College, of Angola, Indiana, with a degree in mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was preceded in death by his son, Robert Hipsley and his parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He leaves behind his wife of 69 years, Pat (Griffis); two daughters, Deborah Erickson and Cheryl Stoops; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 7, at Calvary Lutheran Church, Angola, with visitation from 1-2 p.m. and a communion service starting at 2 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In lieu of flowers, preferred memorials: Calvary Lutheran Church, Angola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arrangements were entrusted to the H.E. Johnson and Sons Funeral Home, Angola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Hipsley, 89, currently of Hamilton, Indiana, passed away on Friday, September 28, 2023. He was a 1952 graduate of Van Wert High School and a 1968 graduate of Tri-State College, of Angola, Indiana, with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was preceded in death by his son, Robert Hipsley and his parents. He leaves […]<\/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-170883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-01 16:12:24","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\/170883","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=170883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170884,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170883\/revisions\/170884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}