{"id":188793,"date":"2025-01-23T11:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=188793"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:09:06","slug":"kathy-e-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/01\/23\/kathy-e-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy E. Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kathy E. Lee, 62, of Van Wert passed away at her residence on Monday, January 20, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kathy Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

She was born July 20, 1962 in Wyandotte, Michigan a daughter of Clifford Faye Fought and Wanda Lee Best, both of whom are deceased. On October 23, 2000, she married Michael R. Lee who survives her in Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathy is survived by her son, Matthew Fought; Michael’s children, Kaitlyne (Arnold) Winebar and their child, Arcaydian, Kassandra (Jerry) Redmond and their children, Benjamin and Elizabeth, and a grandchild, Mercede Clark. She is also survived by a sister Brenda (Chris) Holloway and their children, Missy, Stacey and Rachael and their children Christopher, Farrah, Denver Rose, Julianne, and Elijah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.Kathy was a caring and loving wife. She had been employed for a time in a 411 telephone office in Seattle. She had also worked with Senator Brown to help promote the rights of children with disabilities in public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family will receive those wishing to pay their respects from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, January 25, at Brickner Funeral Home, Van Wert. A funeral service will follow at 12 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preferred memorials: Multiple Sclerosis Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Condolences may be left at www.bricknerfuneralhome.com<\/a> or emailed to bricknerfuneralhome@yahoo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathy E. Lee, 62, of Van Wert passed away at her residence on Monday, January 20, 2025. She was born July 20, 1962 in Wyandotte, Michigan a daughter of Clifford Faye Fought and Wanda Lee Best, both of whom are deceased. On October 23, 2000, she married Michael R. Lee who survives her in Van […]<\/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-188793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 23:25:33","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\/188793","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=188793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188795,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188793\/revisions\/188795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}