{"id":200387,"date":"2025-12-09T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200387"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:50:53","slug":"michelle-d-klutka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/09\/michelle-d-klutka\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle D. Klutka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michelle D. Klutka, 62, of Van Wert, passed away Friday, December 5, 2025, at her residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was born June 13, 1963. Michelle was a proud veteran of the United States Navy and a member of the Van Wert American Legion.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Michelle is survived by her sons, Justin (Janine) Klutka and Jordan (Jennifer) Klutka; grandchildren, Noah, Owen, Avelynn and Will; a brother, William Humrickhouse of Ashley, Indiana, and nieces, Katlin, Quincy and Kendal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was preceded in death by her parents, Roger and Theresa (Kintz) Humrickhouse, and a brother, Eric Humrickhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle loved the theater, singing, Harley Davidson motorcycles, and above all else, her cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A memorial service will be held at 12 p.m. Saturday, December 13, at Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home and Crematory, Van Wert, with Father Chris Bohnsack, officiating. Private burial will take place at a later date. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In lieu of flowers, preferred memorials: the Van Wert County Humane Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online condolences may be expressed at www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle D. Klutka, 62, of Van Wert, passed away Friday, December 5, 2025, at her residence. She was born June 13, 1963. Michelle was a proud veteran of the United States Navy and a member of the Van Wert American Legion. Michelle is survived by her sons, Justin (Janine) Klutka and Jordan (Jennifer) Klutka; grandchildren, […]<\/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-200387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 19:23:51","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\/200387","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=200387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200395,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200387\/revisions\/200395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}