Cheryl L. Castle, of Convoy, passed away at home on Monday, July 13, 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was born on April 19, 1959, the daughter of Lawrence and Ivalou (Mitch) Strunkenburg. Cheryl was united in marriage on March 24, 1974, to Joel K. Castle who survives.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is survived by a son, Joshua (Brenda) Castle of Convoy, and daughter, Jaimie L. Friemoth of Convoy. Also surviving are grandchildren Dalton, Katelyn, and Camren Castle as well as Harleigh, Landin, and Nathaniel\u00a0Friemoth. \u00a0She is also survived by one niece, Nickie Strunkenburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cheryl had worked at Eaton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are no services or memorial scheduled at this time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brickner Funeral Home, Van Wert, assisted the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cheryl L. Castle, of Convoy, passed away at home on Monday, July 13, 2026. She was born on April 19, 1959, the daughter of Lawrence and Ivalou (Mitch) Strunkenburg. Cheryl was united in marriage on March 24, 1974, to Joel K. Castle who survives.\u00a0 She is survived by a son, Joshua (Brenda) Castle of Convoy, […]<\/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-207866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 06:55:36","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\/207866","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=207866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207867,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207866\/revisions\/207867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}