{"id":207350,"date":"2026-06-28T06:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207350"},"modified":"2026-06-28T06:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:11:18","slug":"linda-ann-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/28\/linda-ann-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Ann Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, when Heaven&#8217;s choir had an immediate opening, God called Linda Ann Fox, a former resident of Van Wert, to join. Waiting for her in the audience were those who had gone before: the love of her life, Donald Wayne Fox; her parents, Mabel and Frank Burton, brothers Buddy and Bob Burton, sisters Nina Lee Eviston and Marylou Frazier, daughter Kelly Fox and granddaughters Kena King and Krishna Lundgard.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Linda-Fox-6-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207351\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Linda Fox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Still waiting for tickets are her daughters, Deb Voltz-Miller of Mims, Florida, Joni Lehman of Grapevine, Texas, and Donna (Rob) Nicely of Painesville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She will be missed by her remaining grandchildren, Joshua Cox, Kristy (Randall) Lorenz, Fox Nicely, and Brittany Anderson. Linda is also survived by great-grandchildren, Corbin Lorenz, Nora Lorenz, Drey King, Sierra King, Destiny Lundgard, Dustin Lundgard and great-great-grandchildren, Zoey, Mila, Alana, and Ashton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linda retired from Dana Corporation, and was a member of the Van Wert VFW and American Legion Auxiliaries. Many people will remember her for her many years of picking bass fiddle for the Fox Brothers and Foxtail Grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday, June 30, at Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home, Van Wert, followed immediately by a graveside service at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, rural Van Wert.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memorials may be directed to to a charity of the donor&#8217;s choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed at <a href=\"https:\/\/alspachgearhart.com\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, when Heaven&#8217;s choir had an immediate opening, God called Linda Ann Fox, a former resident of Van Wert, to join. Waiting for her in the audience were those who had gone before: the love of her life, Donald Wayne Fox; her parents, Mabel and Frank Burton, brothers Buddy and Bob [&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-207350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 04:26:30","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\/207350","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=207350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207352,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207350\/revisions\/207352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}