{"id":36987,"date":"2013-04-07T17:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T22:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=36987"},"modified":"2013-04-07T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T22:24:24","slug":"lulu-glee-shook-ayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/04\/07\/lulu-glee-shook-ayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lulu Glee (Shook) Ayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lulu Glee (Shook) Ayers, 86, of Van Wert, died at 9:47 a.m. Saturday, April 6, 2013, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>She was born April 26, 1926, in Van Wert County, the daughter of the late Harvey D. and Bernice L. (Weyer) Shook. On August 3, 1946, she married Walter S. Ayers, who preceded her in death on December 31, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include a son-in-law, Michael (Linda) Zartman; one brother, the Rev. Robert (Nancy) Shook of Willshire; three sisters, Mary Alice (Charles) Sanders of Van Wert, Rose Elaine (Charles) Lichtenberger of Wren and Jacqueline (John) Hunter of Glenmore; three grandchildren; a stepgranddaughter; three great-grandchildren; two stepgreat-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Two children, Richard E. Ayers and Sandra K. (Ayers) Zartman; a brother, Russel H. Shook; and one sister, Kathryn Hoverman, also preceded her in death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, at Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home &amp; Crematory in Van Wert, with the Revs. Robert Shook and Josh Tissot officiating. Burial will be in Greenbriar Cemetery in rural Van Wert County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calling hours are from 12:30-2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: The Salvation Army or to the family.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alspachgearhart.com\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lulu Glee (Shook) Ayers, 86, of Van Wert, died at 9:47 a.m. Saturday, April 6, 2013, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert. She was born April 26, 1926, in Van Wert County, the daughter of the late Harvey D. and Bernice L. (Weyer) Shook. On August 3, 1946, she married Walter S. Ayers, [&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-36987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 08:58:34","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\/36987","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=36987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}