{"id":185955,"date":"2024-11-11T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=185955"},"modified":"2024-11-11T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:06:26","slug":"lester-g-merkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/11\/11\/lester-g-merkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester G. Merkle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lester G. Merkle, 91, of Turkey Lake, Hudson, Indiana, formerly of Ohio City, passed away Saturday evening, November 9, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 16, at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 10275 East 550 South, Hudson, Indiana.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A complete obituary will be published soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed at <a href=\"https:\/\/alspachgearhart.com\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arrangements have been entrusted to Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home &amp; Crematory, Van Wert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester G. Merkle, 91, of Turkey Lake, Hudson, Indiana, formerly of Ohio City, passed away Saturday evening, November 9, 2024. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 16, at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 10275 East 550 South, Hudson, Indiana. A complete obituary will be published soon. Online condolences may be [&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-185955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 01:05:09","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\/185955","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=185955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185956,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185955\/revisions\/185956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}