{"id":18603,"date":"2012-01-04T20:30:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T01:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=18603"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T01:31:31","slug":"ada-l-stemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/01\/04\/ada-l-stemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada L. Stemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ada L. Stemen, 94, of Van Wert, died at 1:25 p.m. Wednesday, January 4, 2012, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>She was born June 14, 1917, in Van Wert, the daughter of the late John S. and Josephine (Harbarger) Bagley. On July 19, 1940, she married Doyt E. Stemen, who preceded her in death on November 22, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include two children, Susan Lichtle of Van Wert and John (Vonnie) Stemen of North East, Md.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Seven brothers, Ernest, Fenton, John, Gern, Clyde, Floyd and Forrest Bagley; and a sister, Edith Childers, also preceded her in death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, January 7, at Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home &amp; Crematory in Van Wert, with the Rev. Paul W. Miller officiating. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery in Van Wert.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calling hours are from 5-8 p.m. Friday, January 6, at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: Van Wert County Special Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Messages of condolence may be sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alspachgearhart.com\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ada L. Stemen, 94, of Van Wert, died at 1:25 p.m. Wednesday, January 4, 2012, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert. She was born June 14, 1917, in Van Wert, the daughter of the late John S. and Josephine (Harbarger) Bagley. On July 19, 1940, she married Doyt E. Stemen, who preceded her [&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-18603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 11:44:44","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\/18603","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=18603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}